For which areas are shade plants suitable?
With these plants, you can not only make shady beds attractive. Plants that don't like direct sunlight also thrive under trees, in front of shady walls and on the bank of a pond.
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Flowering shade plants
Bright flowers in particular can conjure up light in dark areas. masterwort, woodruff or lily of the valley, to name just a few examples, have bright white flowers and at the same time require little care.
These pretty flowering plants also cope wonderfully with low amounts of light:
- splendor pier
- aconite
- Autumn Anemone
- thimble
- Purplebells
- foam flower
- Christmas and Lenten Rose
Hostas are also among the shadow specialists. These versatile garden plants are extremely popular for their variegated foliage and variety of leaf colors. The plants, which form dense clumps, also form decorative, racemose inflorescences in white, violet or lilac.
Ferns, the classic shade plants
These veterans of the plant world gracefully unfurl their fronds in spring. Reserve a moist, shady area under shrubs for these interesting plants and combine different leaf and growth forms. In this way, you can enjoy the varied yet calm appearance of these special plants.
Popular ferns for the garden are:
- peacock wheel fern
- Stag's Tongue Fern
- shield fern
- rainbow fern
- elephant trunk fern
- filigree farm
- goldscale fern
- male fern
- rib fern
- sickle fern
Foliage ornamental plants for the shade
These plants impress with their colorful foliage or the pretty shape and the intense color of the foliage. Some leaf ornamental plants are evergreen and therefore remain attractive in winter.
Extremely popular, green shade plants are:
- chalkboard sheet
- hazel root
- Little Garden Snake Beard
- chestnut leafy record sheet.
There are also a number of grasses that prefer shade to the sun. Especially at the sedges there are many varieties that prefer sunny locations.
tips
Plant perennial shade perennials preferably in spring or autumn. Since shade plants are usually moisture-loving, water the plants regularly for the first few weeks. Snails also like the conditions in the shade bed very much. Therefore it may be necessary to collect the reptiles there again and again.
