Shade Tolerant Plants
Do you have a shady spot in your yard? Or perhaps you are in the trees and your yard is all shade or mostly shade. Choosing the right plants for the right conditions will ensure your success. These plants will tolerate or thrive in partial shade to full shade (check each plant for the amount of shade they like). Planting a nice shade garden will give you years of enjoyment.
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Annuals
Calla Lily
Pansies
Perennials
Astilbe
Bergenia
Bishops Weed
Bleeding Heart
Columbine
Ferns - All
Foamflower
Forget-Me-Not
Geum
Globeflower
Goat’s Beard
Hellebore
Heuchera
Heucheralla
Hosta
Jacob’s Ladder
Joe Pye Weed
Lady’s Mantle
Ligularia, Othello Golden Ray
Lily of the Valley
Lungwort
Lupine
Lysmanchia, Firecracker
Meadowsweet
Monkshood
Obedient Plant
Pasque Flower
Primrose, Mix
Soloman’s Seal
Spiderwort
Grass
Buffalo Grass
Vines
Honeysuckle
Hops
Groundcover
Ajuga
Bearberry
Clover - Stepable + Jeepers Creepers
Creeping Jenny
Lamb’s Ear - Jeepers Creepers
Lamium - Jeepers Creepers
Moss - Stepable
Rockcress - Stepable
Thrift - Stepable
Violet + Stepable
Vinca
Shrubs
Boxwood
Buckthorn
Burning Bush
Chokeberry
Cotoneaster
Currant
Euonymus, Emerald ‘n Gold
Honeysuckle, Twinberry
Oregon Grape
Dogwood, Arctic Fire, Cornelian Cherry, Isanti, Ivory Halo, Red Osier
Hydrangea
Lilac, President Lincoln
Juniper, Blue Chip, Old Gold
Ninebark, Coppertina, Summer Wine
Pine, Dwarf Mugho
Plum, Flowering
Privet
Rhododendron
Rosemary, Bog
Smokebush
Snowberry
Spruce, Dwarf Alberta, Pumila, Pimoko Serbian
Sumac, Oakleaf
Viburnum, Blue Muffin, Snowball, Cardinal Candy
Willow, Arctic, Flame, Coyote, Hakuro Nishki
Witch Hazel
Rose
Double Knockout
Henry Kelsey
Fruit
Blueberry, Blue Crop
Currant
Raspberry
Calla Lily
Pansies
Perennials
Astilbe
Bergenia
Bishops Weed
Bleeding Heart
Columbine
Ferns - All
Foamflower
Forget-Me-Not
Geum
Globeflower
Goat’s Beard
Hellebore
Heuchera
Heucheralla
Hosta
Jacob’s Ladder
Joe Pye Weed
Lady’s Mantle
Ligularia, Othello Golden Ray
Lily of the Valley
Lungwort
Lupine
Lysmanchia, Firecracker
Meadowsweet
Monkshood
Obedient Plant
Pasque Flower
Primrose, Mix
Soloman’s Seal
Spiderwort
Grass
Buffalo Grass
Vines
Honeysuckle
Hops
Groundcover
Ajuga
Bearberry
Clover - Stepable + Jeepers Creepers
Creeping Jenny
Lamb’s Ear - Jeepers Creepers
Lamium - Jeepers Creepers
Moss - Stepable
Rockcress - Stepable
Thrift - Stepable
Violet + Stepable
Vinca
Shrubs
Boxwood
Buckthorn
Burning Bush
Chokeberry
Cotoneaster
Currant
Euonymus, Emerald ‘n Gold
Honeysuckle, Twinberry
Oregon Grape
Dogwood, Arctic Fire, Cornelian Cherry, Isanti, Ivory Halo, Red Osier
Hydrangea
Lilac, President Lincoln
Juniper, Blue Chip, Old Gold
Ninebark, Coppertina, Summer Wine
Pine, Dwarf Mugho
Plum, Flowering
Privet
Rhododendron
Rosemary, Bog
Smokebush
Snowberry
Spruce, Dwarf Alberta, Pumila, Pimoko Serbian
Sumac, Oakleaf
Viburnum, Blue Muffin, Snowball, Cardinal Candy
Willow, Arctic, Flame, Coyote, Hakuro Nishki
Witch Hazel
Rose
Double Knockout
Henry Kelsey
Fruit
Blueberry, Blue Crop
Currant
Raspberry