Flowering Perennials That Can Grow in Partial Shade
Below you will find a list of flowering perennials from our plant database that can grow in partial sun or partial shade. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant.
Uses for these perennials that flower vary by variety, and may also thrive in full sun or full shade. Blooming perennial plants that flourish in shady areas may do equally well in wet soil, average moisture or dry conditions and can be grown in the grown or in decorative containers, window boxes or hanging baskets. Container gardening, with a mix of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and tropicals are very popular because they are quick and easy to grow and look lovely all season.
With increased awareness of the value that native perennials add to the natural landscape, this information will help the American consumer make better choices about which plants can best handle the extremes and often changing weather patterns. The list of perennials with shade tolerance is more extensive that perennials that can only grow in either full shade or full sun.
But, as long as they aren't invasive, introduced or non-native perennials add so much to the landscape and would be missed if they weren't included. Garden favorites include: Anemone or Windflowers, Astilbe and the new, robust hybrids, Bellflowers (Campanula), Bergenia or Pigsqueak, Big Betony (Stachys macrantha), Bleeding Heart Hybrids (Dicentra), Bloody Sage (Salvia coccinea), Blue Lily-turf or Liriope, Columbines (Aquilegia), Cranesbill or Hardy Geraniums, Crown Imperial or Fritillaria, Dame's Rocket or Dame's Violet (Hesperis matronalis), Flax (Linum perenne), Foxgloves (Digitalis), Great Masterwort and incredible Cultivars (Astrantia major) form beautiful clumps, Hostas, Iris, Jacob's Ladder (Polemonium caeruleum), Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium nipponicum var. picturm), Lavender, Lenten Rose or Christmas Rose (Helleborus), Lilies, Lobelia hybrids, Maiden Grass (Miscanthus sinensis), Maiden Pinks (Dianthus deltoides), Painted Daisy (Chrysanthemum or Tanacetum coccineum), Sages (Salvia), Saxifrages, Sedums or Stonecrops, Spotted Nettle (Lamium maculatum), Sun-rose (Helianthemum nummularium), Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima), Texas Firebush (Hamelia patens) actually native to the tropics, but blooms red and purple for months in containers, Treasure Flower (Gazania rigens).
As you look at the thumbnail images of the perennials for partially shady locations, you will see that many of these flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
