For some reason, among many gardeners, especially among beginners, there is an opinion that shady places in the garden are not very suitable for growing beautiful flowers... Therefore, it is customary to break flower beds in the sunniest places of personal plots. But in every garden there are places where the sun almost does not look.
The north side of the house, a solid high fence, places under trees with a wide crown - all these areas are either in the shade or in partial shade. And for some reason such areas are considered unsuitable for flower cultivation.
Is it true that flowers do not grow in the shade? Nothing like this! There are many types of flowering ornamental plants that thrive in places where direct sunlight does not fall. Even some varieties of roses, which usually prefer the sun, and bloom in lighted areas, feel great in partial shade.
Let's figure out how to decorate the most distant corners of your garden so that shaded areas are not inferior in beauty to bright sunny meadows.
To begin with, plants can be both shade-loving (preferring shade and losing their decorative effect in sunny areas) and shade-tolerant (such flowers can grow both in the shade and in the sun).
In addition, when choosing plants for dark corners, remember that flowers can be annual and perennial. Annuals grow and fade in one season, and perennials are able to grow in one place without transplanting for several years. And this circumstance must be taken into account before you decide what exactly and where to plant. If annuals can be changed every year, achieving a variety of compositions, then perennials make it possible to admire their beauty annually without any transplants.
The best is a combination of those and other plants in your garden. By planting new annuals each time to your stationary lovers of shady corners, you can achieve greater variety in landscape design your site.
Now let's figure out which plants can be planted in the shade so that their decorative effect does not suffer.
Hosta
One of the most common perennial shade-loving plants is the hosta, which is rightfully called the "queen of the shadow" and "twilight princess".
This plant is truly charming, and can beautify the most sophisticated garden, withstanding any competition. Hosta flowers look like small lilac bells, and are quite inconspicuous, but the beauty of these plants is not in flowers, but in decorative leaves (see photo).
Hosta leaves are different sizes and shapes, and their color varies from dark green to bluish and yellow. They can be light green, bluish, spotted, striped, almost white, with wavy edges, or lace-like edges.
Hosts can resemble large fountains of round leaves and reach a height of up to 70 cm, or they can be small bushes with narrow elongated leaves. However, any hosts add mystery and charm of the real East to the garden.
The hosts should be planted in the shade. This is not to say that this plant categorically does not tolerate the sun, however, in sunny areas, the hosts will lose their charm, and their leaves acquire the usual for all plants green color... The host retains its brightness and diversity in the shaded areas of the garden.
In this case, the host is enough unpretentious flower, and does not require special care. Her only preference, besides the shaded area, is moisture. The host is very fond of moist soil, and prefers abundant watering.
The beauty of the hosts is also that it decorates the garden all season, and begins to wither and fall closer to frost. If you do not remove the dead leaves of the hosta, and leave them lying in the garden until spring, your plant will not require any additional cover.
Lily of the valley
Following the host in terms of quality is another shade lover - lily of the valley. This flower is best planted under trees, but note that the lily of the valley has a very strong and branched root system. After a few years, it will grow throughout the site, but the largest and most fragrant flowers will appear in the shade. In the sun, the lilies of the valley become small and do not bloom for long.
It is difficult to imagine a flower that can match the beauty, sophistication and aroma of a lily of the valley. Small white bells are not just a spring decoration of the garden, but also exude such a smell that it is simply impossible to pass by.
Lilies of the valley do not require special care, they grow and reproduce perfectly, and the only thing that this adorable flower can be "blamed" for is its short flowering. By the end of June, the lily of the valley will bloom, and only elongated leaves will remain of its refined beauty.
Periwinkle
The third leader among shade-loving perennials is the “magic violet” of the Celts, a symbol of marital fidelity - periwinkle.
A persistent, unpretentious ground cover plant can grow in the sun, but it is in the shade that its leaves acquire a glossy shine, and small flowers - a heavenly brightness.
Periwinkle practically does not require maintenance, it grows quickly and is simply irreplaceable in decorating shady areas with north side at home and near a fence that does not get sunlight.
The periwinkle will successfully disguise the most unsightly places in your garden, close the soil tightly, and throughout the summer you will not have weeds on your site - the periwinkle will force them out of the beds.
Ferns
Speaking of shade-loving plants, one cannot help but recall ferns - these permanent inhabitants of humid forests.
The fern does not please the eyes with bright inflorescences, but this defect is more than compensated for by luxurious carved leaves.
If you have a humid dark place in your garden or country house where nothing grows, plant an unpretentious fern there, and enjoy its view all season. The fern looks especially beautiful near large stones.
There are a lot of fern species, they come in different sizes, the leaves of this plant are very diverse in shape, and any gardener can choose a variety to his liking.
Shade-tolerant perennials
Shade-tolerant plants can grow both in the shade and in the sun, without harm to their decorative effect and without prejudice to flowering. Often these plants complement each other very beautifully.
To plants that are equally well tolerated and sunny places, and shady areas include astilbe, irises, forget-me-nots, violets, and balsam.
Astilba
Shade-tolerant astilba with multi-colored inflorescences looks great in compositions with hosts. Astilba is appreciated for long flowering throughout the season, shade tolerance and unpretentiousness.
A bush with spreading leaves looks beautiful not only during the flowering period, but also after it, retaining its decorative effect all summer.
Given the diverse color range of this plant, flower growers like to combine astilbe with inflorescences different colorplanting them in the same flower bed. Different shades one flower looks very interesting and unusual.
However, the combination of astilba and hosts is considered a classic. These plants complement each other perfectly and the composition of them gives the garden a special charm.
Irises
Another beautiful shade-tolerant perennial is iris. Irises are called northern orchids for their unusual shape. This flower can be bulbous and rhizome, and depending on this, you need to choose a place for planting. Lovers of shade and moisture are precisely rhizome irises, and their bulbous brothers grow better in sunny, dry places.
For some reason it is believed that irises love sunny areas. Nothing of the kind - this flower grows beautifully in the shade. There is no need to plant iris near ferns - its roots do not like excessive moisture, however, in a shaded place, for example, under trees, if you do not allow overflow, iris will feel great.
Irises look good both on their own, in single plantings, and in combination with other flowers. The most interesting irises look with one more lovers of shady areas - conifers.
Conifers in the garden
Canadian spruce
Shady areas of the garden are preferred by Canadian spruce, which can rightfully become a real decoration of your garden. Since tall specimens of Canadian spruce in nature reach a height of more than 30 m, the most the best choice for a summer residence or garden - dwarf plant with a rounded crown, for example, echiniformis.
This plant grows well in partial shade, and is not whimsical. Any soil is suitable for him, as long as they are sufficiently moist. Echiniformis spruce is resistant to frost, drought and gas-polluted air.
Canadian yew
Another shade lover is the evergreen yew. Suitable for the garden species of this plant are berry and Canadian yew.
Canadian yew is a low (about one meter high) shrub, the crown of which reaches about one and a half meters in scope. This yew loves sour, fairly fertile soil.
The Canadian yew grows rather slowly, has a strong, but shallow root system.
Berry yew
Berry yew is coniferous shrub... It can grow both vertically and spread - it depends on how it is planted. If, during reproduction, cuttings are taken from branches that are directed upward, then the berry yew bush will grow vertically. If the cuttings are taken from branches growing horizontally, then the bushes will be low and spreading.
Spreading berry yew, which is most suitable for shady garden, reaches about 60 cm in height, but it can be up to five meters wide. The branches extend horizontally from the trunk and press to the ground.
The berry yew grows rather slowly, loves moisture, and prefers to grow not in the darkest corner of the garden, but rather in partial shade. This plant prefers fresh soil.
Immediately, we note that the berries of this plant are poisonous.
Annuals that grow in the shade
For shady corners of the garden, it is easier to pick up perennials. But often you want flowers to start delighting you this summer. Annual plants are best suited for this.
Annuals usually prefer the sun, however, among them you can find lovers of semi-darkness. And it is they who will give the shady places of your garden the decorativeness they lack.
Phlox
In such places you can land annual phloxwho prefer partial shade. This flower begins to bloom around the middle of the forest, has bright inflorescences and reach a height of up to 80 cm.
Phlox care is easy - they love loose soil, watering and feeding throughout the season. For the winter, phloxes need shelter, since their superficial root system may freeze.
Another shade lover is one-year-old balsam. This flower long time grown in room conditions, however, it later gained popularity as a garden culture.
Balsam
Balsam is a short shrub up to 50 cm in height. The flowers of this plant are large enough and have a purple or lilac color. Balsam blooms in early June and blooms until frost.
This flower feels great in the shade, but it does not bloom as abundantly as in more illuminated areas of the garden. Nevertheless, it does not lose its decorative effect, the bush grows tall, and there are enough flowers to ennoble the shady place of your garden.
This plant prefers nutritious soil and moist soil. It is better to avoid overflow to avoid soil stagnation.
Begonia
Multicolored begonia is also an annual that can grow in the shade. This plant has many types, but our climatic conditions most suitable for growing ever-flowering begonias and tuberous begonias. Moreover, even in the case of growing begonias in the shade, unlike other annuals, it does not lose its bright color.
Lobelia
A flower called "lobelia" feels great in the shade. This annual cannot be called shade-loving, but it grows well in the shade, without losing the brightness of color and decorativeness. In addition, adult lobelias can tolerate low temperatures and damp weather. Lobelia blooms beautifully in any conditions.
If suddenly the flowering becomes less abundant, then you just need to cut the stems of the plant shorter, almost to the very ground, leaving literally 5-6 cm, and flowers will soon appear on the growing shoots.
Lobelia needs to be fed minimally, since as a result the number of leaves will increase, but flowering may decrease.
Mimulus
If you like bright sunny colors, plant mimulus under the trees and on the north side of the house - a bright spotted flower that cheers up even in cloudy weather. This funny flower is also called "lipstick".
This shade-loving annual does not change color even in the darkest corners of the garden, and does not tolerate direct sunlight. It is unpretentious, resistant to temperature extremes, withstands slight frosts, calmly treats wet soil and does not require maintenance.
Nemophiles
If you are the owner of a plot with dry soil, and the groundwater does not lie very close to the surface of the earth, you can plant an American forget-me-not - nemophila in the shady corners of your garden. This unpretentious shade-tolerant ground cover plant with blue small flowers came to us from America.
For some reason, it is not often found in our gardens, although it has all the characteristics in order to take its rightful place among popular garden plants.
Nemophila cannot be called a lover of dark corners, she grows well in the sun, but tolerates shade well enough without losing her decorative effect.
It is beautiful, unpretentious, abundant flowering plant, and the only thing that nemofila does not like is too wet soil. The flower does not tolerate excessive moisture, but it is necessary to water the nemophila in a dry summer.
Output
As you can see, there are quite a few varieties of garden plants that will help you create real flower oases in the shady corners of your plot that will decorate your garden and delight you all season.
Combine conifers with flowering annuals, hosts with astilbe and irises, plant lilies of the valley under trees, do not forget about Canadian spruce, and your garden will always have a summer mood!
) or an exquisite border. Shade-loving and shade-tolerant plants will help to carry out our plans. You have known many of them for a long time, and you will have to get to know some of them better.
It is known that most of perennial flowering plants love the sun, however, among this species there are many that prefer to grow in shaded areas. Flowers growing in the shade perfectly decorate shady corners, making them original and unusual. Even if these perennials cannot boast of beautiful flowering, they most often have embossed, extremely spectacular foliage, sometimes very large.
In almost every garden there are areas that the sun does not illuminate for long, and even then, as if in passing - areas on the north side of the house or, for example, areas under trees. Gardeners often lament this: "What a pity that you can't plant roses, bright annuals (), or at least break the lawn." But they are worried in vain. Having shown imagination and with a little effort, you can create an interesting, and most importantly, original flower garden in the style of nature gardens in a shaded place. A shady flower bed, complemented by decorative stone dumping, fancy wooden driftwood or a small stream will look simply amazing. The ennobled shady corner will delight juicy greens and muted colors of flowers and will give a pleasant coolness, even on the hottest summer day.
Plant selection
A plant should be chosen with an eye on whether a sparse or solid shade in the area prepared for planting, what type of soil is in this place, whether the humidity is high in this place. Depending on the conditions, it is determined which plants are preferable for planting: tall or low, perennial, annual, with a long or short flowering period. In addition, it should be borne in mind that not all plants feel good in close proximity to trees.
In the event of dry weather in the first year after planting, the plants need to be watered. Only after perennials or annuals take root well and acquire a powerful root system, you can be calm: now the plants can easily endure even drought. Watering should not be frequent, but regular and abundant - the influx of moisture will cause active root growth in depth.
The approach to shade-tolerant and shade-loving plants is fundamentally different, therefore, when choosing flowers for a garden, it is necessary to find out which group they belong to.
Landing under trees
Trees like chestnut
and hazel,
emit toxic substances that fall on the soil with falling leaves in the fall. Thus, these plants are protected from uninvited gueststhat will draw life juices from the soil. Robinia is especially sophisticated in this respect:
the roots of this tree give off poisons that poison the soil and force competitors to settle somewhere else.
Oak is a different matter
apple tree
and linden.
These trees are very friendly, their roots tend deeper, without capturing large area... In this regard, perennials cannot be competitors for apple, linden and oak, even theoretically: trees are not taken nutrients and water from the upper soil layers.
It is much more difficult to carry out landscaping near birch trunks
and maple.
The roots of these trees spread close to the soil surface and perennials can survive here only if they are fed with fertilizers in the first months of life.
Large perennials can be planted near the trees: their root system is well developed and can easily cope with competition. By the way, the combination of perennial flowers, ornamental grasses and branchy ferns looks especially impressive. The foliage and color of these plants are so expressive that it is simply impossible to pass by such beauty indifferently.
Some gardeners plant such a wonderful flower as gravilat under trees.
but, strictly speaking, it needs medium, not high shading.
There are perennials that easily take root under the spreading crowns of trees or on the side of the house looking to the North. However, it is worth knowing that even the most shady lawn grass can withstand shading up to forty percent, and under trees such as spruce and walnut, shading reaches eighty percent.
If you have firmly decided that grass should grow under the trees in your garden, a mixture of various herbs developed by specialists specifically for planting in shady places... So, if some plant does not take root under the nut crown, then another will certainly take root.
Bare areas under spreading trees or under a low, but dense shrub look, to put it mildly, not very beautiful. Therefore, you just need to try to turn them into a green carpet by planting perennial ground cover herbs. Thus, you can achieve an excellent effect and at the same time seriously complicate the life of weeds, which will now be quite problematic to grow.
Perennial shade-loving flowers
A) Host. This perennial has beautifully carved foliage and bell-shaped flowers. Flowers are small or large, double or simple. By color: white, bluish, lilac or pink.
B) Buzulnik, or Ligularia. This perennial is truly gorgeous. When it grows, it simply reigns on the lawn. The leaves are carved, spreading, the flowers are bright yellow, orange or even purple-brown.
C) Astilba. There are many types and varieties of this plant. The color scheme is extremely rich. Large openwork panicles of medium-sized flowers "explode" the space with a riot of colors. It blooms from mid-summer to early autumn, beautifully decorating a shady garden.
D) Astilboides lamellar. A plant of exceptional beauty with cream-colored panicles and leaves sometimes reaching one and a half meters in diameter.
E) Volzhanka. It is somewhat similar to astilba. Looks spectacular at the moment when the brushes of flowers have already entered into force, but have not yet had time to bloom. The plant is tall, strong, similar in appearance to a bush.
E) Tsimitsifuga, or in the popular way - black cohosh. This plant also has a third name, more poetic, invented by the Germans: "silver candles". This is the name of the cimicifuga because of its long, naked peduncle, on which cream-colored flowers are collected.
G) Rogers. This perennial is sometimes called the queen of the shadow. Looks great even after the end of the flowering period.
H) Labaznik (another name is meadowsweet). The inflorescences are collected in a panicle, the flowers are pink or white, the leaves are somewhat reminiscent of a human palm.
I) Japanese anemone. The elegant, soft pink flowers of this plant are arranged on strong, straight stems. The leaves are cut, lush. Anemones look great near trees and bushes. However, this plant loves partial shade, so it is best to plant it under fruit trees.
K) Aconite. Sometimes this wonderful flower is called a shoe. It boasts a variety of colors and varieties, including curly aconite.
L) Aquilegia. The perennial takes root well in partial shade. It reproduces by self-seeding, which gives the plant the ability to quickly renew itself.
M) Pachisandra is apical. Practically all year round pleases the eye with green, luscious foliage. Even in the most shaded areas, it easily forms a dense, green carpet.
H) Cyclamen ivy. This perennial is very frost-hardy, grows well in partial shade. It is not difficult to recognize cyclamen: its leaves look like ivy leaves and are decorated with a beautiful silvery pattern.
O) Large periwinkle. This plant does not care where it grows: in the shade or in the sun. It blooms from late spring to early autumn. The flowers are lilac, medium-sized; periwinkle takes root by shoots that find their place even under bushes.
P) Kupena multiflorous. Another name for the plant is borrowed from the Bible - "Solomon's seal". The flowers are tubular, white.
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In any garden there is a shady corner, or even several, that I would like to transform with the help of planting. For these purposes, shade-tolerant garden plants are suitable, which do not need sunlight as badly as most others.
What plants grow in the shade?
To equip a shaded garden area, you need to know plants that love shade. Many gardeners are interested in whether there is a difference between shade-loving and shade-tolerant plants. There is no difference it comes about a group of plants that do not have enough direct sunlight, but diffused or reflected sunlight. Shade-tolerant garden plants are varied. It can be:
- shrubs;
- flowers;
- climbing plants;
- lawn;
- conifers;
- deciduous;
- fruit plants;
- trees.
Shade-tolerant flowers for the garden
When choosing shade-tolerant flowers for a flower bed, you should take a closer look at the most persistent and beautiful options... In addition, it is important to know about the flowering time in order to organize a flower garden that will be decorated with flowers starting from early spring and until late autumn.
Shade-tolerant lawn
As you know, the lawn refers to the area where the grass grows, performing decorative and landscaping functions, less often - for growing grass as forage. A bright green lawn looks very good in combination with other plants. It serves as a contrasting base, but not all lawn grasses are the same in light-requiring. When choosing plants that love the shade, you need to take care of the lawn, which does not need direct sunlight. There are many different types of lawn, but we will focus on two of the most popular.
Shade-tolerant shrubs
Many are used to decorate the site shade-tolerant shrubs for the garden, which decorate the space, playing a decorative role, although they can be functional plants. From the many types of shrubs that love shade, you can choose the one that fits perfectly into the overall landscape and decorates it.
- Shade-tolerant garden heather plants will beautify any garden during the flowering period.
- Barberry. This shrub grows quickly, is not afraid of frost and bears fruit with useful berries.
- Forsythia. The unpretentious drought and frost-hardy plant of bright lemon color will decorate any garden. Such a plant is very bright and accent, therefore, it is planted with careful thought over the neighborhood.
- Jasmine.A beautiful and fragrant plant that many gardeners love for its unpretentiousness. In addition to decorating the site, jasmine can be used as a tasty and healthy tea additive.
- Euonymus.A beautiful and bright shrub that looks spectacular not only in summer, but also in winter.
- It is not just beautiful but also useful plant... Of the cultivation features is the intolerance of acidic soil, therefore if the soil in which hazel is planted is still sour, then sand must be mixed into it.
- Gooseberry.This shrub thrives equally well in the sun and in the shade. Abundant watering for gooseberries is not required, so it is often planted in summer cottages.
Shade-tolerant climbing plants
When deciding for yourself which shade-tolerant and climbing plants are suitable for the garden, you should take a closer look at the proposed options.
Shade-tolerant conifers for the garden
Choosing conifers shade-tolerant species plants, you need to decide on the height and characteristics of care. There are several low-growing conifers that should be addressed. special attention, because these shade-tolerant coniferous garden plants look very beautiful and unusual, especially if you pick a decent company for them.
Shade-tolerant trees
Separately should be considered shade-tolerant trees for a garden that can serve beautiful design plot, hedge or bring additional benefit in the form of fruits. There are many options and a lot in the final choice depends purely on personal preferences and climatic features, which are not always favorable for the trees you like.
Shade-tolerant deciduous trees
There are a lot of deciduous trees that tolerate shade well, but they are not always appropriate on the site. It is important to decide before choosing the functions that the planted trees should perform, their size and care features. Many deciduous trees belong to shade-tolerant trees, but we have selected the most unpretentious of them.
Shade-tolerant fruit trees
If the fruit plants are shade-tolerant and do not require special care, then they can be planted in the summer cottage, in the shaded part of it, and not worry. Such plants are loved not only for their visual appeal, but also for fruiting. Combining the beauty and usefulness of such trees, you can kill two birds with one stone, for which the owners of private land plots love them. Among fruit trees, who have gained the greatest popularity, you can choose something suitable for yourself.
Shade-tolerant conifer
Knowing which shade-tolerant trees are best for the garden, you can create a real piece of Paradise. Among coniferous options you can pick up very interesting decorative treesthat will make the site unique and unusual.
What flowers to plant in the shade? This question interested in many people who have their own homes and have little idea where and what plants will be planted. Moreover, in almost any garden there are places where the sun's rays do not fall, and they are often considered unfavorable for planting crops. However, such a shady area can accommodate many plants, trees and flowers. Exactly shade-loving plants delight the eye with embossed, bright, beautiful leaves, which are sometimes more attractive than the flowers themselves. Shade-loving plants are very different from light-loving ones, not only in their preferences, but also in appearance.
- 1 The density of the shade on the site, since there are plants that love continuous shade, and there are those that will not be damaged by an hour's exposure to the sun.
- 2 Presence of trees - important factor, since many plants are best planted under trees, bushes, thickets.
- 3 Soil quality. There are plants that will survive in any soil, while others need a special substrate.
- 4 Proximity groundwater... Many shade-loving plants love moisture, and some can do without it.
- 5 The likelihood of flooding. It is very important that in places with possible flooding, crops are planted that can transfer a large number of water.
- 1 Shade-loving plants are plants that do not like the sun. You cannot plant them in a hot place - they will not survive. Representatives of such flowers are: hosta, periwinkle, lily of the valley, clefthoof, kupena, ever-flowering begonia.
- 2 Shade-tolerant are able to grow not only in the shade, but also in the sun. The shade-tolerant ones include: doronicum, astilba, aquilegia, aconite nodule, badan, Waller's balsam, dicenter, tenaciousness, or ayuga, iris, daylily, forget-me-not, liverwort, fragrant violet.
- yellow;
- blue;
- blue;
- white;
- purple.
- 1 A host that is capable of creating blue and green oases from magnificent openwork leaves. Their shape depends on the variety. This plant is loved by snails, but to remove them from the site, you can use a container with a small amount of beer. As the snails accumulate, the containers are taken out of the territory.
- 2 Ferns. They will bring a wilderness atmosphere to the garden.
- 3 Digitalis loves shade and reproduces by self-seeding. It can be pinkish, red, yellow and white.
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Choosing a place for planting shade-loving plants
Before boarding, you need to assess the place, namely:
After choosing a site, you can start planting plants.
Types of flowers
Trees and shrubs are more often planted in the shady zone, but flowering crops can also please the eye.
Flowers growing in the shade are divided into:
Both are suitable for landscaping shaded areas in the garden.
You should immediately decide which ones you want to plant and for how long: there are annuals and perennials.
Shade-loving annuals
Annuals emerge, grow, bloom, produce seeds, and die in one growing season. If plants develop very quickly, then they are ephemeral. If they sprout in the fall, then these are winter crops. Annuals are brighter than perennials. In another way, we can say that annuals develop in the spring and die off in the fall.
Among the shade-resistant annuals, pansies, daisies, etc. can be distinguished. They create beauty on the site even in the shade. Such crops have rich colors, but only bloom in season.
Herbaceous pansies - fragrant and beautiful, light-loving, but perfectly exists in the shade. The flower loves moderate humidity. It blooms in spring, summer or autumn. Height from 10 to 50 cm.
Pansies are one-year-olds (with the exception of two-year-olds). They have thin stems with a branched structure. The leaves are beautiful, heart-shaped or oblong. The buds are large, up to 10 cm in diameter, with long legs, growing one at a time. The color of the buds is different: they can be either monochromatic or in three colors at the same time:
Daisies bloom very beautifully, forming thickets where weeds do not germinate. It is an annual that loves both light and shade. In the sun it can be a perennial. Daisies are indifferent to winter. This plant blooms in May-June. There are creeping, up to 5-7 cm, and growing, from 10 to 60 cm. It is worth noting that this plant is edible. The daisy can be a decoration from early spring to late autumn.
All the plants that bloom in early spring and are bulbous, can be attributed to annual plantsloving the shadow. These are such flowers as: snowdrops, galanthuses, scillas, muscari, daffodils, tulips, white flower, ornithogalum (bird plant), crocosmia. They are grown under bushes. Such plants bloom in early spring, when the trees are still bare.
Overview of perennial breeds
Perennials are the most common plants that live for over 2 years. When they reach a certain age, they can bloom again without dying. Their root system penetrates deeper into the soil than that of annual plants. Plants can repeat flowering many times. They also easily adapt to changes in the environment.
Basically, perennials are shade-loving. Most of them are cold-resistant, but there are also those that need to be covered or even dug out to be transferred to a fairly cool place where the temperature is not lower than -5˚С. For some flowers, the leaves fall off for the winter, and for many they retain their vital activity all year round.
It is shade-loving, unpretentious, does not require special treatments, does not cause allergies, and is invulnerable to almost all insects and diseases. The main advantage of moss is that it is evergreen. Moss grows well under trees, creates decorative compositions on its own. They are used to decorate fences, tree trunks, walls, sculptures and even roofs. It also helps preserve the harvest in winter: carrots, beets, apples and other vegetables and fruits are stored in dry moss (the moss is dried in advance). Fruits stored in moss do not lose their smell and aroma, do not rot or freeze, as the moss absorbs excess moisture.
Indoor cultures
In our time, plants have appeared that were only indoor, and now they are planted in gardens. For example, ever-flowering begonia and Waller's balsam. New varieties of these crops are cold-tolerant. Now they have begun to grow in the garden. They are suitable just for shady places.
In gardens, you can often find tuberous begonia and calla. Although they can be grown in shaded areas, they should overwinter in a house or basement.
Some houseplants on summer period transplanted into the garden. It is better to do this after May 20 and before June 10. The soil must be fertilized with humus, the bush must be inserted into the hole without destroying the root assistance. It is advisable to transplant where there is no constant exposure to sunlight.
Plants such as fatshedera, helksina, cymbidium, some types of citrus fruits, myrtle, palm, adenium, acokantera can spend the summer outdoors.
The most common options
Beautiful daffodils, delicate violets, adorable primroses, tulips, magnificent hyacinths, early lilies of the valley are some of the best plantsthat feel great in the shade. They must be planted alternately near bushes or under trees, they will grow beautifully and please the eye. It is important that all these crops have time to bloom even before the leaves open, so they practically do not shade.
The bleeding center looks very beautiful, which can decorate any shady area after its flowering. It is very interesting: the flowers bloom on an arched stem. And it looks as if someone strung the buds of a plant on a thin thread.
Another one gorgeous flowerthat loves shade is a milk-flowered bell.
Geranium large-rhizome is popularly called the old-timer of garden plots. This culture - a favorite neighbor of many plants - is unpretentious in care, not capricious. It blooms very beautifully and for a long time. There are many advantages of this plant.
The Japanese anemone has bright beautiful flowers and large leaves that will decorate any darkened area in the garden.
There is a flower that stands until the very cold weather - fuchsia. She will add charm to any meadow. Aconite grows well next to fuchsia. It can be planted in the shade where it will bloom until winter.
The catchment is a magnificent shade-loving flower: blue, purple, pink, red. It will delight with its flowering from spring to autumn.
Snapdragon is a shade-loving plant, a flower that has a wide variety of buds. It grows above a meter.
If you don't like flowers, you can use plants with unusual decorative leaves. You should choose:
There are a lot of plants that can be planted in the garden in places where shade prevails or there is no sun at all. Which plants to use depends only on the preferences of the person. Some people like flowers, some are more attracted to leaves. All cultures are very beautiful in their own way. Annuals will help you change every year appearance site, and perennials will eventually become an element of its decor.
The main thing when choosing plants is to remember that growing in the shade is a serious test for plants, and not everyone will stand it, so you need to choose shade-loving unpretentious species... Watering flowers that are in the shade should be infrequent; moderate watering is optimal. It is better to plant and replant flowers in May.
Choose the right flowers that can be planted in the shade in the country, follow the recommendations, and the plants will delight you for a long time.