Flowers For Shade Gardens Perennial

It is easy to grow like a heuchera and has the flower power of Tiarellas. It is a clump-forming perennial which typically produces a compact, basal mound of rounded to lobed (maple-like) leaves usually with distinctive veining.

Hosta Sum and Substance does best in part to full shade and handles some direct, filtered sun. This plant will tolerate some drought, but must be established. Any type of fertilizer offers nutrients that help plants with the transition to a new environment.

The leaves are deeply-cut, medium green. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Astilbe Snowdrift does prefer moist soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend adding topsoil...

Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Patriot does best in rich, moist, organic soils in light, sun-dappled shade. This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white...

Few plants shine as brightly as Sweet Kate does in the shade garden. Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall.

In spring, the new leaves of this evergreen start out a coppery pink, then in summer turn green, and finally in fall, turn a rust shade. Prefers consistently moist, humusy soils that are rich in organic matter.

Heuchera Citronelle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. Mass as in a group as a ground cover . This Heucheralle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar.

This shade perennial is a great addition to your yard or landscape. Heuchera Caramel has purplish-red leaf undersides that offers an attractive contrast, along with white flowers float above the 12″ foliage in early to mid summer.

Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years. The original purple coral bells, it has maple or ivy-like leaves which are an attractive deep purple above and beet-red beneath. Foliage color may fade to a bronze-green in hot summers.

Hellebore Ivory Prince is a complex hybrid whose parents are unknown. Outward-facing, cup-shaped, creamy white flowers (to 2-3” diameter) with overlapping petals bloom atop reddish stems from late winter to mid-spring (March to May in St. Louis).

Flower colors range from pure white to red to near black. Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested.

Cut back flowering stems after bloom to promote new foliage growth. Hellebore Pine Knot Series is a selection of unbloomed seedlings in mixed colors of the best single and semi-double hybrid hellebores which have been developed by Judith and Dick Tyler...

Best grown in organically rich, humusy, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. , commonly called Lenten rose, is a clump-forming, late winter-blooming perennial which typically grows 1-1.5′ tall.

Plant patented. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall. Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall.

In cold winter climates such as St. Louis, the amount of retained foliage color in winter depends in large part upon the severity of the temperatures. Heucheras are best grown in organically rich, humusy, medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade.

Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. We highly recommend that you mulch your Dwarf Mondo Grass with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground...

Details: Excellent selection for shaded areas in the landscape, including borders, woodland gardens, shade gardens, wild gardens and foundations. Specific epithet means “many eyelashes” in reference to the bristly scales found on the stipe and rachis.

It prefers no direct sun—a delight for shade gardeners—and blooms happily in April and May. A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems.

Protruding inner petals of the flower purportedly appear to form a drop of blood at the bottom of each heart-shaped flower (hence the common name of bleeding heart). Prefers rich, fertile, humusy, consistently moist soils.

Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. Heuchera Fire Alarm produces fiery, red hot foliage in early spring and fall. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Heuchera Fire Alarm plants that...

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much...

Due to the fussy nature of seed germination, plants are more commonly grown by division of their narrow rhizomes.If happy, wood anemone will multiply quite rapidly via underground rhizomes to produce a large-size colony.If dug after flowering, you can...

Then Ms. Butler adds the little hosta to the hole.Ms. Butler told me that most of the hosta she has started their lives as a bare root plant. She acknowledged that some growers would rather have a growing plant to add to the garden but for her the bare...

Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. It has fuzzy light green leaves and white flowers in late summer/ early autumn. Strong grower that deserves a lot more use We suggest when planting your newly...

* The Globe-flower ( Trollius europaeus ) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae . * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it likes rich moist soil in sun or part shade; native...

* The Globe-flower ( Trollius europaeus ) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae . * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it likes rich moist soil in sun or part shade; native...

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole.