Shade Loving Winter Bedding Plants

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You can also find burgundy pink rose lavender and white in this plant.

Shade loving winter bedding plants. Learn about the top 20 shade-loving plants including Hosta Heuchera Dead Nettle Tiarella Astilbe Foxglove Ferns Hydrangea and more. The frilly double blooms of Nonstop begonias the compact Rieger begonias the more tubular flower forms and elongated foliage of Begonia bolivienisis and its hybrids and more. The two-lipped tubular trumpet-shaped flowers usually have light violet and a royal violet on the same bloom.

Also called Christmas rose hellebore is one of the earliest bloomers of flowering shade plants. The short clumps of grass grow up to 15 inches tall but the narrow grassy-like leaves dont grow upright. Think of shade-loving flowers and begonias are likely to be high on your list.

There are so many different types to choose from. An evergreen shrub that helps to light up a shady part of the garden in winter and spring. All begonias combine well with other shade-loving plants or can look spectacular as a solo planting.

Plant these perennials in drifts or clumps for best effect with other spring-flowering shade-lovers such as ferns and. Many of the best shade-tolerant plants can be identified by their lustrous deep green foliage. Look for its burgundy pink cream green or white shade flowers in late winter or early spring.

Compact birds nest fern shade plant ideal in cool frost-free climates. It needs to be grown in acid soil or in containers of ericaceous compost ideally mixed with equal parts lime-free John Innes compost. Asplenium australasicum - birds nest fern.

Torenia is often called the wishbone plant and it will grow from zones 2 to 11. You will love the purple flowers on this choice. The flowers bloom in the summer and can be red orange yellow pink mauve blue or white.

That includes Sweet Box Sarcococca confusa which grows slowly to around about 15 metres and has tiny flowers that give off a perfume in late winter One of the most well-known perfumed plants for shade is Daphne odora or Winter Daphne. Although it looks delicate the Christmas rose is quite sturdy once it gets established very drought-tolerant and its deer- and rabbit-resistant. Fill the shady spots in your garden with a variety of plants that grow in shade including perennials annuals flowering shrubs and trees.

Astilbe needs shade so its pretty flower plumes wont fry in the sun. Nemesia varieties grow in zones 2 through 11 and some of them are bi-color. Sit in the fork of a tree as a feature or try it indoors in a pot.

The Nemesia Strumosa is popular annual bedding that produces a dense carpet of bright flowers which can hide the foliage completely especially when grown in mild temperatures.

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