Not always, a country house can boast of an ideal location relative to the sides of the horizon. And it often happens that a larger volume of the garden is located on the north side, where it is covered with shade almost all day. And someone on the site has spreading trees and rich berries that give a good harvest, but do not let light into the lower tier, and there is little that can grow. And I really want to have a lush flower garden and admire not the bare ground, but a wonderful green carpet. In this case, shade-tolerant plants that have adapted to live and bloom sometimes even in full shade can help out. If the sun's rays have the opportunity to penetrate through the branches at least occasionally, then the list of plants and herbs will increase significantly.
Shade-loving perennials and flowers
In the list of perennials that tolerate the absence of the sun well, you can add:
- Astilba
- Badan thick-leaved
- Periwinkle
- Hosts
- Aquilegia (alpine catchment)
- Frost-resistant geraniums
- Ayugu
- Sedum large
- Shade-loving primroses
- Liverwort
- Volzhanka ordinary
- Corydalis noble
- Caucasian ash
- Mountain soldanella
- The dicenter is beautiful and magnificent
The wax leaves of a periwinkle planted in the garden will cover the earth with a lush evergreen carpet, which in spring will delight the eye with a scattering of blue stars. Several large-flowered varieties are available today, with white and pink petals. The plant is propagated by dividing the bushes, when climbing shoots are planted, or with the help of seeds that reach maturity by mid-July.
Of the forest dwellers, May lily of the valley has adapted well in the garden. Its delicate bell flowers look very beautiful and exude an incredibly refined aroma. Lily of the valley is bred at the beginning of autumn, as well as periwinkle, by dividing the bushes. Prepared plants must be planted, maintaining fifteen centimeter intervals, and buried ten centimeters.
In spring, the oak anemone can become a real jewel of the garden, whose rhizomes are easy to dig up in the forest. Soon she will crawl between the bushes and will sow on her own.
A variety of primroses bloom perfectly in shady corners. It is good to plant them under trees with whole bushes or just sow them with seeds.
In the first spring months, the lungwort will attract attention. The bright blue bells make the plant magical. The lungwort will grow quickly on its own. It is worth planting a few bushes, and in the fall you can admire a wonderful decorative carpet.
An openwork bright green cover on the ground creates a European hoof. And in spring, unusual water lily-like flowers appear between the rounded leaves. The hoof, like the periwinkle, is great for shade-resistant lawns.
They love shady places of violets. The horned one can strive upward by 25 cm, but the fragrant one is not high. The flowers have a whole range of shades: bluish, lilac, pink, sunny yellow, cream.They can be placed in spots or create a bright array of flowers. The plant is propagated by dividing the bushes or sowing freshly harvested seeds. The fragrant violet usually blooms twice a season - in spring and early fall. The horned violet pleases with flower splashes almost the entire warm season.
Another shade-loving woodland is Kupen, fragrant and graceful. True, people rarely visit our gardens. And completely undeserved. Throughout the first half of the summer, they are covered with snow-white bell-shaped flowers, with whose scent few can compete. Beauties are very unpretentious, they will feel great even in absolute shade. You can propagate by dividing the roots, or by seeds. Kupen are not indifferent to moisture, therefore, it is advisable to lay a layer of mulch from leaves around the bushes.
If we turn to garden plants, the famous shade lover can be called dicenter... This flower, whose middle name is "broken heart", will decorate well the dark corners of the garden or the flower garden on the north side. Flowers at the dicenter appear in May and look very original - like open hearts on long petioles. In the main species, the shade of flowers is white-pink, while hybrid plants can also have snow-white. Low-growing varieties of the flower have also been bred - exceptional and beautiful, which are unpretentious, but they need fertile soil and sufficient moisture. Propagated by the dicenter either in the spring (by cuttings growing from the root), or in the fall, dividing the old plant. When the dicenter fades, its ground part dries up.
Insufficient amount of sun is well tolerated by any type of catchment area. These plants have unusual, moth-like flowers. They appear in May and attract the eye with the complexity of the buds and the rainbow of shades. Aquilegia is bred by sowing seeds, and then it reproduces itself by self-sowing.
It will perfectly fit into the shady corner of the astilbe garden, the paniculate inflorescences of which will stand out brightly with all kinds of colors from June to August. When caring for a beauty, it should be remembered that she loves a large amount of moisture, and therefore needs abundant watering on dry days. Closer to winter, the stems of the plant must be cut off, and the roots must be covered with dry leaves. The reason for this is the shallow growth buds located, if they are not protected from low temperatures, they will not give shoots for the next year. In the spring, the bushes must be fed with complex fertilizer.
Hemerocalis also tolerate shading well, they are also called daylilies. Hybrid forms are now available in a variety of colors from pure white to charcoal black. Daylilies love fertile soil and adequate moisture. In the fall, soil should be poured onto the roots so that when they grow, they do not protrude from the ground.
Annual shade-tolerant plants
They feel great in the shade and even bloom beautifully lobelia, lashes of nasturtium, clumps of fragrant tobacco. From two-year-olds, they will decorate a flower bed with pansies. This compact, graceful flower boasts many varieties and shades. Foxglove and tender forget-me-not will bloom magnificently under the shade of trees.
Herbs and greens
Ferns, climbing ivy stalks, some cereals, and, of course, hosts will bring greenery to our garden. These distinctive plants boast a wide variety of shapes: round, oblong, and even ovoid. And the shades of the leaves are countless: green, blue, bluish, with a yellow sheen, striped, variegated ... In addition, in July the bushes produce flower stalks, where graceful bells, painted in lilac, lilac or snow-white, gleam. It is very good for the hosts under the trees, the main thing is that it is sufficiently humid. Under the sun's rays, their lush foliage burns.
But the record holders for shade endurance are, of course, ferns. More than fifty species grow in the vastness of Russia in natural conditions. These ancient plants date back to the pre-glacial period.
As a garden culture, the common fern is the most popular. Its leaves are feather-like in shape and often grow up to one and a half meters in length. Plants are easy to propagate using underground shoots - in the spring they are separated from the main bush and transplanted. On dry days, ferns need to be watered or they will wither. These plants can be useful not only for original curtains, but also for juicy young stems in spring. Such a delicacy is obtained from the bracken and ostrich.
Shade-loving vines
There are many climbing plants that tolerate shade well. Among them, it should be noted such perennials as actinidia kolomikta, schisandra chinensis - even in a significant shade, they remain high-yielding. And whips of maiden grapes - tri-pointed and five-leafed are used as decorative crops. There are also curly annuals that will brighten the shady garden corners. The best of them is morning glory, a liana with large bell-shaped flowers of various colors.
Shrubs and conifers
Many shrubs have learned to live with a minimum of sunlight. Evergreen rhododendrons are very beautiful - in natural conditions they grow on the edges of the forest or between higher brothers. Plus, they bloom wonderfully. The garden will be decorated with box trees (you can also use a creeping species), privet, euonymus - their leathery foliage will add shine to the shade. But variegated varieties should not be used - the leaves will lose their beauty and become the usual green color. Mahonia holly will look very presentable, it blooms and gives blue fruits.
The most luxurious of the shrubs is the hydrangea. This magnificent plant adores partial shade.
On the north side of the house, several types of conifers will also feel comfortable. Take, for example, berry yew - today there are various varieties, among which there are low ones, and shades vary from yellow to almost black. Other shade-tolerant conifers include larch, fir, most of the junipers.
