Choosing shade-tolerant plants for the garden. Shade-loving annuals and perennials for your garden: description, photo Shade-tolerant perennials

19.11.2019

As trees and shrubs grow, the shading of the territory increases. For many gardeners, areas that are in the shade are a real problem. Although, in reality, making a beautiful flower bed under apple trees or planting shade-tolerant shrubs near a house or a fence is quite simple. You need to choose the right plants that are suitable for these purposes.

Before choosing shade tolerant plants for a garden, it is necessary to determine the level of illumination of the site: places with little sunshine and those into which no light penetrates at all.

Pay attention to shade-tolerant plants, examples and photos of which are presented below, this will help you choose the right seedlings for planting and growing in shaded areas.

To fill in shaded spaces or make a smooth division of the site into zones from trees to herbaceous plantings, shade-tolerant shrubs are perfect.

Privet (lat. Ligústrum)

It is densely branched, unpretentious to the ground, resistant to drought, but does not tolerate frost. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully wrap the privet bush for the winter with a cloth or burlap.

Cotoneaster (lat. Cotoneaster)

It is distinguished by dense branches with foliage of a dark green hue, which turns red in autumn. Small pinkish or white flowers are not particularly decorative, unlike the black and bright red cotoneaster berries that appear by early autumn.

Mahonia holly (lat. Mahōnia aquifōlium)

Plant, shadow loving and moist soil. Mahonia will delight with green foliage all year round, and in April and May - spectacular yellow-gold flowers.

Dören (lat. Córnus)

This shrub is often empty with decorative - White Derain, due to the similarity of names. But unlike him - bears fruit, tasty and sweet and sour. Due to its resistance to frost and unpretentiousness, it is especially popular in central and northern Russia. Its foliage, which changes color depending on the season, looks great both in summer and in winter. It is also called Kizil.

Forsythia (lat. Forsythia)

Mock orange (lat. Philadelphus)

It is also called garden jasmine. Planted in a shady area, the bush grows well and blooms. Most varieties of mock orange tolerate drought and winter well, and are not particularly demanding on the soil.

Snowberry (lat.Symphoricárpos)

Great when fruiting. The fruits of the snowberry - greenish-white with a reddish blush or pearly pink, will delight the eye until late autumn.

In a place inaccessible to the sun, you can organize beautiful flower bed using flowering shade-loving plants.

Hellebore (lat. Helléborus)

It will delight with yellow or cream flowers for two weeks of May, and the rest of the period with beautiful and bright foliage.

Forest Hyacinth (lat. Hyacínthus)

Grows well under trees in early spring a large pedicel is covered with many small bells. When growing Forest Hyacinth, precautions must be taken, because often the plant causes skin irritation on contact.

Lily of the valley (lat. Convallaria)

He loves shade very much. Its white fragrant flowers appear in May and June. In August, the stems are covered with bright orange berries that look appetizing. The plant is considered poisonous, so young children should be monitored. Used for medical purposes.

Trillium (lat. Trillium)

Differs in dark green wide leaves. It blooms white in June, gradually changes color to pinkish, and then turns red. The plant loves the shade, but requires aeration of the soil.

Digitalis (lat. Digitalis)

It grows well in places inaccessible to light, a year after planting it produces whitish, pinkish-orange or purple flowers.

Dicentra (lat. Dicéntra)

Flowering begins in May, ends in September. Dicentra flowers crimson or bright pink.

Bruner (lat. Brunnera)

Perennial plant with blue or cream small flowers, the leaves of which are particularly decorative and great variety coloring.

Each home plant also needs certain conditions under which it will develop and feel comfortable. Not all of them tolerate even light shade. Therefore, it is very important to know which flowerpots are best grown on windowsills and terraces on the south side, and which ones on the north.

Soleirolia or Helksina (lat. Soleirolia soleirolii)

The plant belongs to the ground cover of the Nettle family. Perfectly suited for placement on the server side, belongs to the shade-tolerant.

Sansevieria three-lane (lat. Sansevieria trifasciata)

The most favorite type of flower growers is sansevier. Due to its unpretentiousness, the plant is widely used for landscaping office space and public places, it is shade-tolerant.

Common ivy (lat. Hedera helix)

Suitable for vertical gardening. Due to the large mass of leaves, the plant is considered one of the best for renewing the air in the house.

Philodendron climbing (lat. Philodendron hederaceum)

The most popular type used for landscaping kitchens and warm verandas in the house (called home loach). Requires abundant watering from spring to autumn (the earth should not dry out) and limited in winter (once a week is enough), unpretentious to light.

Clivia (lat. Clivia)

herbaceous plant with beautiful flowers, grows well in fertilized, moist soil, belongs to the shade-tolerant.

Begonia (lat. Begoniaceae)

The plant prefers moderate watering (no more than a liter of settled water per week, it is best to just spray the leaves and maintain the humidity in the room). With a strong bay of water, the roots begin to rot, and the flower dies. Today there are hundreds of varieties of begonias. Flowering - prefer bright lighting, but require protection from direct sunlight. Decorative leaf - shade-loving.

Nephrolepis (lat. Nephrolépis)

From the genus ferns. It is best to grow on the western, eastern and northern windows. It is a shade-tolerant houseplant and will make an excellent addition to any garden.

Adiantum (lat. Adiantum)

With hard petioles and thin leaves, it requires constant protection from the rays of the sun and stay in partial shade.

Dracaena (lat. Dracaena)

The shrub grows on the east and west side, does not like the direct light of the sun. Considered a shade tolerant plant.

Rapis (lat. Rhapis)

Prefers diffused light, but can be in direct sunlight.

Hamedorea graceful (lat. Chamaedorea elegans)

Small, slow growing palm. Requires moderate lighting or light partial shade, as well as protection from direct sunlight.

Outcome:

If your orchard is well developed and takes up most of the area, this is not a problem. Thanks to our catalog of plants, everyone can easily choose just such shade-loving perennials for the garden, which will please him.

Household plots of cottages, as well as village and country houses, rarely when they are on a perfectly flat surface, sown with grass alone. Most often, the landscape of the site is not even, especially if it was specially designed by designers, in addition, the territory is usually planted with various trees. In addition, in most cases, the territory that is in private ownership is lined with not one, but several buildings. All of these elements create a lot of shaded places on the site, in which not all flowers can grow. After all, as you know, most plants require a constant supply of sunlight. Let's see what shade-loving flowers for the garden are worth paying attention to.

List of the most popular and beautiful perennials with shade tolerance

Shade-loving or shade-tolerant plants are flowers for which, for normal growth, as well as proper development, it is enough to “eat” rarefied sunlight that breaks through to them through:

gaps in fences;
crown of trees;
tall grass;
other barriers.

At the same time, even these meager rays, as a rule, illuminate flowerbeds with shade-loving plants for only a few hours a day.

The foliage of shade-loving plants does not fade in the sun, which is why it has a juicy green tint. Provided that these flowers are planted directly under the sun, then most likely they will grow very poorly.

Best planted in the shade perennials, since gardeners usually get to these secluded corners of the site last, having processed rose gardens and other flower beds that are in full view. Perennials break through the ground on their own, despite all circumstances and blows. environment. In addition, they are often so strong that they have the ability to "choke" nearby weeds.

Officially, shade-loving plants can be divided into two main categories.

Table 1. The main categories of shade-loving plants

Category	Description
blooming	These plants are characterized by excellent decorative qualities of inflorescences, which they mass-produce. At the same time, the beauty and size of the inflorescences most often is not inferior to the similar parameters of flowers growing in the sun. On the contrary, sometimes their magical beauty, growing in the shade, fascinates the grower much more.
decorative leafy	Ornamental deciduous plants most often do not bloom. They have a decorative function directly from the leaves, which are painted in intricate patterns of the most different colors. So, most often we are talking about a combination of green with white or yellow, however, there are also many instances with: red leaf pattern; purple pattern; pink, etc.

So, let's look at the most popular shade-loving plants that you can plant in your garden and admire them for many years.

Flowering shade plants for the garden

So, as we have already said, flowering shade-loving plants are characterized by especially beautiful buds, which are released as they grow and develop. Let's look at which representatives of this category should pay special attention.

Lily of the valley

Lily of the valley is a plant that has become for the Russians, along with snowdrops, a symbol of spring and all the good feelings that it brings with it. By the way, lily of the valley is quite rare, so some of its varieties are even listed in the Red Book.

The root system of the lily of the valley is located in a horizontal position, and is so well developed that not a single weed can get through its shoots. Lily of the valley is able to fill the entire space on which it is planted with a single cover of leaves and flowers.

The lilies of the valley are presented:

basal leaves growing from one top of the rhizomes, 2-3 pieces each;
peduncles, on the tops of which delicate white flowers of lily of the valley grow.

Peduncles grow from a bud, also located at the top of the root segment. One bud has one stem with a height of 15 to 30 centimeters, depending on the plant variety.

Lily of the valley flower clusters are fragrant and beautiful. One formation also includes 6-20 white heads, exuding a captivating smell. All flowers face the same direction thanks to the spiral stem.

Lily of the valley can self-pollinate, however, it also attracts this process insects, even though it does not have a nectary. He replaces it with a bright smell and a lot of pollen.

Dicentra

Dicentra is a plant whose middle name sounds like "broken heart". According to legend, once upon a time there lived a girl, Jeanette, who, getting lost in the forest, was saved by a brave and very handsome young man. Of course, Jeanette fell in love with him, and received confirmation of the reciprocal feeling in the form of a kiss. However, a few days later, on the way, Jeanette met a wedding procession, in which her lover acted as the groom. At that moment, Jeanette's heart split from pain, and turned into a beautiful flower.

In total, such a plant species as Dicentra has about 20 varieties. These perennial plants can grow up to 100 centimeters in height. They have a very thick and strong root that goes deep into the ground.

The decorative qualities of this plant are at their best:

delicate "curly" green foliage is divided into many segments;
the flowers themselves can have pink, lilac, red, white and other shades, while they grow in the shape of a heart, which has a diameter of about 2 centimeters.

Subsequently, the pollinated flowers turn into boxes, from which you can collect the seeds of Dicentra and continue to breed it.

Dicentra is very unpretentious to the soil, the main thing is that the soil should be:

light;
nutritious.

Before planting a plant, it is important to dig up the area so that the shovel goes to a depth of at least 25 centimeters.

Dicentra is a flower that you can hand over to your loved one without a twinge of conscience

Anemonastrum

Anemonastrum, Anemone, Anemone - all these names are given to the same perennial, originating from the Buttercup family. Given herbaceous plant grows mainly in cold regions, representatives of its genus are found even in the Arctic.

By the way, Anemone is also translated from Latin as wind, therefore, the popular designation anemone reflects the true nature of the flower. Most likely, it was his sensitivity to air currents (fluctuation of petals and peduncles) that gave such an unusual name to a beautiful plant.

Anemones have fleshy rhizomes and:

cylindrical;
tuberous.

The flowers of this plant grow from special basal sinuses, each with one peduncle.

Anemones - flowers of incredible beauty

Flowers can have completely different colors:

white;
red;
burgundy;
blue;
yellow;
pink;
red, etc.

One flower has 5-20 flowers.

The flowers of this plant are bisexual, that is, they are equipped with both pistils and stamens. After their pollination, the plant produces fruits in the form of nuts, which fall from the place of growth under the influence of the wind and spread over the nearby area.

By the way, some varieties of Anemones are used to create medicines that help with various ailments. However, garden varieties still serve as a decorative decoration of the site.

Digitalis

Digitalis is another perennial herbaceous plant that is quite beneficial to plant in the shade, as it tolerates it well. However, foxglove should be handled with care, as it contains a potent glycoside in its composition, which in large doses can be toxic to humans.

In total, about 25 species of this plant are known, all of them are distributed mainly in the Mediterranean part of the continent.

This herb is also a perennial plant, while it can also grow into a shrub or semi-shrub.

A bright palette and lush brushes of flowers - what else do you need for a garden

Foxglove leaves have an oblong shape resembling an egg or lancet. The flowers of the plant are collected in a brush at the very top of the peduncle, while the calyx of each flower has the shape of a bell, divided into five segments.

After the flower has been pollinated, it forms pods as oblong as the leaves, which subsequently crack at the septum and release the seeds.

Initially, foxglove was represented on the territory of Russia by only 6 species, however, today there are much more of them.

pay attention to interesting fact: during especially cold nighttime insects often choose foxglove flowers as shelter, as the temperature inside their petals is much higher than outside.

Aquilegia

Aquilegia or Catchment - another incredible beautiful plant, which loves the shade and grows successfully in its conditions. So, this flower also represents the Buttercup family.

In total, about 35 types of aquilegia are known. In Russia, the variety received the greatest popularity, according to appearance very reminiscent of a bell, which has a purple bud color.

The name "aquilegia" from Latin can be translated as:

"aquatic plant";
or "eagle".

Therefore, sometimes the bushes of this flower are affectionately called "eagles".

The shoots of this flower go through full development in two years, since:

in the first 12 months of life, the flower forms the so-called renewal bud, from which, with the advent of cold weather, leaves begin to form;
in the second year, flower stalks already appear from these new leaves of Aquilegia, and we can observe the beauty of the buds blooming on them.

A variety of flower colors - another distinguishing feature Aquilegia. So, the buds formed by it can be:

blue;
crimson;
pink;
yellow;
white;
combine several colors.

At the same time, their bizarre shape and the presence of as many as five petals only add elegance to the appearance.

Aquilegia is able to add beauty to any, even the most "fresh" garden

Each of the buds has spurs, the number of which is equal to the number of petals. They are conditionally divided into groups.

Table 2. Groups of Spurs of Aquilegia

Group	Who enters
Spurs at the end are bent in the shape of a hook or ring	This category includes such types of aquilegia as: Olympic; glandular; alpine; ordinary; European.
The spur stays straight from start to finish, and has a solid length	The following types of aquilegia can be attributed to the desired group: blue variety; Skinner; Canadian; Golden; California.
Aquilegia without spurs	All varieties that do not have spurs grow initially in the territory: Japan; China.

How to grow aquilegia yourself? step by step instructions find in

Decorative leafy shade-loving plants

Fern

Most often, the fern is found in the forest, both coniferous and tropical. We can say that this extraordinary plant is resistant to almost any climate.

Fern - a great solution for a shaded corner in the garden

Very often ferns get from the forest to garden plot independently, however, a person can bring it into the territory and on purpose. By the way, it will be relevant to dig up a fern in the local forest, and transfer it to your estate. So you get a guarantee that the plant will definitely grow.

In addition, local fern species are adapted to the climatic conditions of this particular region, therefore, they will cope with its weather in your garden.

The fern is represented by fluffy bushes formed from basal foliage, the height of which reaches 20 centimeters - a meter or more. The fern grows for a long time (in total it can live for about 30 years).

badan

Badan is a perennial, the decorative function of which was mainly taken over by wide and flat leaves. However, this bush is also decorated with pinkish flower stalks with a similar shade of flowers collected in a brush.

In total, about 10 species of this plant are known. Initially, it came to us from the territories:

central part of Asia;
Alps (forests and meadows).

This plant forms a kind of rosette of basal foliage and erect flower stalks.

Badan is a very beautiful ornamental plant.

Badan prefers to grow in partial shade, provided that it is constantly under the direct rays of the sun, the development of badan will be difficult. The flower needs constant watering, otherwise it will dry out quickly and your shaded flower bed will lose its appearance.

However, the plant also does not tolerate liquid stagnation in the place where it grows, and it also does not like transplants, therefore, it is better to choose a place for a flower once and for all.

Badan blooms all spring only once, releasing flowers within a month, however, its foliage decorated by nature itself pleases the gardener throughout the warm period of the year.

Summing up

In fact, there are many more varieties of ornamental plants that are suitable for planting in the shade, however, their list is so large that it is difficult to fit it into one article. If you wish, you can gradually explore it by reading about the culture that caught your attention in more detail in various sources of information.

Video - Plants for a shady garden

Video - Shade-loving flowers for the garden

Already in early spring, we begin to think about the layout of our garden, distributing the plants that we will plant in different parts of the summer cottage. As a rule, most are faced with the problem of choosing a plant for planting in shady places that you really want to decorate with beautiful flowers or shrubs, because such areas often remain empty and unkempt.

What to plant in a shady place or which plants are shade-tolerant

A shady place is considered to be the area where sunlight falls no more than 3 hours a day, and the rest of the time there is a deep shadow.

Every garden has some shaded areas, such as the northern or western slopes, places near the fence or between large trees.

In fact, the most shady places in the garden are the most best places, because, as a rule, it is there that your favorite bench for relaxing on a hot summer day is located. However, not every plant will be able to withstand the shade, grow successfully and delight the eye with its flowering.

Shade-loving plants include those plants that, no matter how strange it sounds, do not tolerate sunlight at all or suffer from its excess. As a rule, they have bright juicy and green foliage.

All shade-loving and shade-tolerant plants can be divided into 2 varieties: decorative leafy and flowering.

To the shade-loving flowers and flowering shrubs include the following: weigela, matthiola bicorne, daisy, forget-me-not, rudbeckia, fragrant tobacco, astilbe, brunner, lungwort, hydrangea (large-leaved, tree-like, serrate), geyhera, honeysuckle, hawthorn, bergenia, rogersia, arizema, cornflower, volzhanka, aquilegia, dicentra, aconite, tenacious (ayuga), May lily of the valley, cuff, astrantia, kupena, black cohosh, buzulnik.
To the shade-loving decorative leafy bushes includes hosta, fern, astilboides, spindle tree, Thunberg barberry, privet.

Advice! When you arrange a shady area with plants, do not plant only monocultures, shade-loving perennials and annuals look great in close proximity.

Popular shade-loving shrubs

From shrubs for shady places is ideal barberry Thunberg. In deep shade you will hardly get bright yellows and reds, and most likely it will just be a uniform green, but nevertheless, it is still a very conspicuous shade-tolerant plant.

Another small and shade-tolerant shrub is euonymus. Its variegated and low form looks very good in the garden.

Under the shade of trees, a low shrub will be quite noticeable privet. Its lemon-colored leaves seem to illuminate a shady spot.

If you want to plant a taller shrub in a shady corner of your garden, and even with healthy berries, then it is best suited for these purposes hawthorn.

And if you need a flowering shrub, then this is suitable weigela. However different varieties differently belong to the shade - there are more shade-tolerant, there are less.

Very decorative in a shady corner will look cotoneaster. It has beautiful dark green leathery and shiny leaves. Again, varieties differ markedly in shade tolerance.

Imagine how pleasant it will be to sit in the gazebo, which is entwined honeysuckle with its magnificent flowers.

By the way, decorative viburnum Buldenezh (Snow globe) also shade tolerant.

Popular annual and perennial shade-tolerant flowers

Favorites among the flowers for a shady garden will be bicorn mattiola, forget-me-not, rudbeckia, fragrant tobacco.

Fragrant tobacco

If we talk about seasonal and annual shade-loving plants, then under the trees, where there is a big shade, in the spring you can safely plant,, and, because they will bloom in all their glory long before the leaves appear on the trees.

Brief descriptions of the most popular shade-tolerant and shade-loving perennials: shrubs and flowers

hosta

According to many flower growers, the host is just the queen of the shady garden. She has the most diverse color of leaves, ranging from gray to yellow-green, there are even leaves with a white border.

It is very appropriate to combine hosta with a wide variety of fern varieties, planting them in the shade of a house where everything is in order with humidity (it is high).

Video: care and cultivation of shade-loving hosts

astilba

This is a quirky plant that thrives in the shade and thrives in moist soil.

Video: growing and caring for shade-loving astilba

Astilboides

The most striking feature of this plant is the original large leaves. Its leaf can reach from 80 to 100 centimeters in diameter.

Another one distinguishing feature astilboides is that the stalk is not usually attached to it: it grows directly from the middle of the leaf. In other words, it turns out such an umbrella on the leg.

This luxurious and showy plant loves to grow near marshy rivers, it is at its best for decoration. artificial reservoirs.

Buzulnik

There are a lot of varieties of buzulnikov. Those that grow in natural natural conditions, dark green leaves and irresistible yellow buds.

Artificially bred buzulniks often have dark brown, even actually burgundy foliage and unusual, daisy-like, yellow flower stalks that can last for a whole month.

badan

This is a completely unique plant, perfect for planting in the shade. In winter it leaves in a green state and after winter it again appears green to the eye. The fact is that under the snow the bergenia does not shed its leaves and does not die, but remains green all the time.

The flowers of this plant are unpretentious and modest, but very cute.

Another interesting property of bergenia is that its old leaves, which turn dark or brown, have special healing properties. In Tibet, they are brewed as a rejuvenating tea.

Video: unpretentious and shade-tolerant bergenia

Brunner (forget-me-not)

Indispensable for decorating a small shady area.

In addition to the beautiful leaves of impressive coloring (variegated and green with a silvery cobweb), it also blooms angelically charming - small blue forget-me-nots.

You can look at her for hours, she is so airy and beautiful. It's just impossible to look away!

Video: planting and caring for a shade-loving plant, large-leaved brunner

Volzhanka (Aruncus)

It remarkably withstands partial shade, but in deep shade it blooms a little less plentifully. And still, the unpretentious Volzhanka blooms its inflorescences again and again!

Video: unpretentious Volzhanka for planting and flowering in the shade

Geichera

Geichera looks absolutely wonderful, which won the hearts of many gardeners. The number of leaf colors is surprisingly rich: from lilac-steel to bright red and green.

The sizes are also quite diverse: from miniature forms to quite tall specimens.

This is an absolutely unpretentious plant that does not require special attention, grows well and does not lose its decorative effect from May to October.

In addition, geykhera is very winter-hardy and perfectly tolerates the first autumn frosts, leaving under the snow with leaves covered with hoarfrost.

And in the month of May, geyhers start very quickly and gain their color due to the amazingly beautiful foliage.

It blooms marvelously beautifully, flower stalks rise high enough above the plant and last quite a long time.

In the recent past, botanists crossed geyhera and tiarella and got new variety geyherella. The plant has become even more resistant to the preservation of colorfulness, and the color range is much wider.

Video: all about growing shade-loving geyhera

Dicentra (Broken heart)

It can grow both in open and sunny areas, and in shaded areas. However, in the sun, the buds open and bloom early, and the peduncles do not differ in particular size and splendor. In shady places, the color picks up more slowly, but the flowers are brighter, larger and give pleasure with their wonderful appearance until July-August. Therefore, it will be good to plant a dicenter, for example, closer to the gazebo or house, the shadow of which will fall on the plant for most of the day.

It will also look good next to the fence.

Video: how to grow a dicentra or a broken heart in a shady garden

Black cohosh (Cimicifuga)

His name, of course, is not entirely harmonious, but the foliage is so openwork and pretty that when you see it, you will most likely just fall in love.

At the end of summer, he usually throws out a peduncle - a long panicle with silvery flowers. The spectacle is impressive! It is simply impossible to pass by without stopping.

Another important advantage of this shade-tolerant perennial is the fact that it can grow for quite a long time in the same place.

Kupena

In our summer cottages, this flower is not widespread, but nevertheless it is a very friendly plant, which, like no other, is suitable for shady side suburban area.

Its coloring can vary from dark green to variegated, when the green leaf is bordered on the edge with white stripes.

Delicate white and pink flowers all over the stem, resembling something like a lily of the valley, are a very pleasant sight.

The plant grows fast enough, so if you need to fill in the shady space under fruit trees or planted in the shade next to the conifers, then the kupena deserves your attention.

Fern

Another shadow king is the fern. Of course, he does not give flowers, no matter how much we want and do not expect, but he has amazing foliage, which comes in various colors, different sizes and shapes. He lives best in a damp shady corner.

We are used to the fact that the fern is always dark green, but now we have developed varieties with a dark brown color, lilac centers and silver leaf edges.

If you plant a fern in the shade of your garden house or in another shady place, then it will completely take all your attention and the attention of the guests of your garden.

Video: caring for a fern and growing it in the shade under the crown of trees

Rogersia

Many flower growers call her the queen of the shady garden, which grows to a height of 1.5 meters.

Thanks to the magnificent large leaves, Rogersia is very picturesque throughout the season.

Fluffy and fragrant panicle inflorescences of white, pink or cream color bloom in early July and can bloom for more than a month.

Shaded area design idea! In the background, plant such tall and shade-loving plants as buzulniks, black cohosh and ferns, make the second tier from the host, and on the lower plan - geyhera and geyherella.

On your suburban area only shaded areas remain unplanted, and you find it difficult to find suitable plant specimens to revive them? Use our tips and recommendations for landscaping, and then the whole mosaic of your garden will come together.

Video: what plants to plant in a shady area

Shade-tolerant annuals grow and bloom in light partial shade. Most of the beautiful and long-blooming annuals can withstand light afternoon shade from the scorching sun.

Shadow Intensity

Each area is illuminated unevenly. There are such areas of the shadow:

scattered - from the foliage of trees through which the sun's rays pass;
dense - often created by leafy trees;
partial - the sun gets here for a while;
stable - or deaf, located on the north side of buildings, fences, dense planting of conifers.

Shade-loving and shade-tolerant annuals can grow in deep and dense shade, but without flowers. For flowering annuals, areas with partial and scattered shade are most suitable. Many shade-tolerant annuals suitable for flowers partial shade, especially in the middle of the day.

Important! Slightly shaded areas enliven shade-tolerant and shade-loving annuals with white and yellow flowers: kosmeya, lobelia, calceolaria, mimulyus, fragrant tobacco, asters (Chinese callistefus).

How to choose annuals for shade

Flower growers divide plants into shade-loving and shade-tolerant. The first category includes flowers that grow mainly in the shade and give lush greenery, and in open areas become less picturesque. Shade-tolerant - these are flowering annuals, which have enough sunlight for several hours for full development. Annual flowers for shady places provide the required type of soil.

Shade-loving annuals are flowers that grow naturally in forests: balsam, begonia, mimulus, calceolaria, fragrant tobacco, climbing peas, saxifrage, alyssum. Beautifully flowering annuals belong to shade-tolerant ones: asters, ageratum, mirabilis, nasturtium, calendula, chamomile, mallow, kosmeya, iberis.

Advice! Lush flowering bushes of shade-loving begonia, shade-tolerant lobelia, nasturtium, low marigolds will help to hide the withered leaves of spring bulbs under the trees.

Annual shade flowers for the garden

Shade-loving annuals are planted in corners with diffused light, which have dense, green foliage.

Balsam

Shade-loving balsam is indoor and garden. Sometimes in the flower beds there are domestic perennial species. Beautifully blooming shade-loving annual with a corolla, which is different from indoor plants, planted in partial shade. They provide fertile, light soil, which is loosened and watered, fed to the buds with mineral complexes.

Seeds are sown in March, moved to the garden in late May-June. Flowering seedlings have been painting the site since June. Sow in the garden, flowers appear from August to autumn. The palette of petals is diverse: red, pink, purple and white shades.

Begonia

Typical annual flowers growing in the shade are ever-blooming begonias. From low, 15-20 cm, shade-loving plants, designers arrange spectacular bedspreads on flower beds. Flowers in different varieties are white, pink, crimson, red, orange, yellow; simple and terry. Flowering varieties differ in the shape and color of the leaves - green or bronze. Shade-loving culture develops on fertilized and moist soils, requires regular watering. Blooms from June to October.

Seedlings are planted, the seeds are sown very early, at the end or even in the middle of January, in a poorly nutritious substrate. Shoots develop slowly at first and look weak. Dive in a month and a half. They move to the flower bed from the end of May. After transplantation, they are fed with nitrogen preparations for lush growth. Fertilize with mineral complexes with a low nitrogen content before bud formation and flowering. For begonias arrange drip irrigation.

Saxifrage

Modest, unpretentious flowers of bright color in the shade-loving saxifrage, 20-30 cm high. This annual prefers dry shady places. The soil is suitable ordinary, garden, light. On heavy soils, drainage is sure to be arranged, since the shade-loving annual plant does not tolerate stagnant water. Feed once a month along with watering with mineral fertilizers, excluding nitrogen.

The saxifrage is sown in early spring in boxes, which are taken out for 15-20 days in the cold so that the seeds undergo stratification. Small grains are sprinkled with sand. The seedlings are transferred to the garden in June. Also, seeds are sown immediately after the snow melts. Under such conditions, natural stratification takes place. The annual shade-loving saxifrage blooms in July and adorns the garden until autumn. They sell a multi-colored mix of pink, light red and white shades.

Calceolaria

Sometimes shade-loving indoor flowers of cheerful coloring are planted in the garden for the summer. But as garden crops, more unpretentious flowering species are popularized. Near the stream, under the trees, shade-loving Mexican calceolaria or wrinkled calceolaria are placed, a flower native to Chile. Bright annual shade-loving flowers need fertile land, organic matter, watering. To get flowering from May, seedlings are grown. Sowing seeds in the garden, admire the bright flowering lanterns on plants from June to autumn.

The corollas of both shade-loving species are light yellow. Mexican calceolaria, 20-50 cm high, with beautiful small flowers up to 5 mm in diameter, which enliven the shady area. The Chilean species is of the same height, but blooming with corollas is larger - up to 1.5-2 cm. Some hybrids with decorative brown dots on yellow petals.

mimulus

Also for coastal zone or a swampy place, such low-growing, shade-loving annuals that bloom all summer, like mimulus, are suitable. Among the people, expressive flowers that reach a diameter of 5-8 cm are often called sponges for the shape of the petals. Bushes rise to 20-30 cm. They are placed in curb plantings, on discounts, which are located on the north side. Shade-loving plants thrive best in moist, fertile soil that is loosened regularly. Feed with complex fertilizers.

Grow seedlings: seeds are sown in April, not covered with soil. After two months, the seedlings are transferred to a permanent place. Flowers decorate the site all summer. shade plant produces colorful buds regardless of the amount of sunlight received. Then the shoots are pruned, stimulating the appearance of a new wave of flowering, which continues until late autumn. A beautifully flowering annual that can tolerate early frosts down to 3°C. Corollas are bright, with stripes and strokes.

Shade tolerant annual flowers

Many beautifully blooming annuals will adapt to conditions of diffuse and partial shade if the sun illuminates them for 4-5 hours in the morning and evening. In some shade-tolerant flowers, the corolla retains a bright color, in others it becomes paler. Shade-tolerant annuals that bloom throughout the warm season, unlike shade-loving ones, grow well in the sun.

kosmeya

The unpretentious shade-tolerant annual retains cheerful colors everywhere: white, pink, purple in double-pinnate cosmea, bright orange and yellow in sulfur-yellow. Different varieties have been bred that differ in plant height and a border on the petals, semi-double and with a corolla up to 12 cm in diameter. On fertile soils and with a rare planting, more green openwork mass is formed than flowers; tall varieties rise to 120-160 cm.

Shade-tolerant cosmea grows on fertile and relatively poor, loose soils, tolerates drought. Sown in the garden in May-April, blooms from July until frost. They grow a shade-tolerant annual and seedlings, planting in May. Cosmea reproduces successfully by self-sowing, sprouts are also transplanted. Samoseyki bloom earlier - from the second decade of June.

Attention! The rich flowering of cosmea is ensured by the timely removal of faded baskets.

Marigold

Brightly flowering annuals are sun-loving, but also shade-tolerant. 3 types are widespread: erect, undersized, thin-leaved. The height of the flowers varies from 20 to 130 cm. Marigolds develop well on fertile loams and require abundant watering at the beginning of growth. Seeds are sown in the ground when it warms up to 15 o C. Shade-tolerant plants bloom from July until the end of the warm season.

For flowering in June, seedlings are grown, transferred to the garden when the threat of frost is gone. Erect or African marigolds are tall, with warm double flowers ranging from orange and yellow to creamy white. Shade-tolerant marigolds low rise to 20-60 cm, come with full and simple inflorescences. The colors are enriched with deep red-brown hues. Thin-leaved marigolds have bright red-orange and golden colors. This one still has enough rare species in our gardens, beautiful openwork foliage.

Lobelia

These annual flowers thrive in scattered shade, as well as in full sun. Compact spherical bushes 10-20 cm in height, with small, up to 1.5-2 cm flowers in white and blue, there are blue, purple, purple. Blooms from May to September.

A shade-tolerant annual seedling that blooms all summer propagates: seeds are sown from the beginning of February in a substrate of coconut fiber, sand, garden soil. Small grains are laid out on the surface, lightly sprinkled with sand so that the moisture does not evaporate so quickly. Watering is regular, and the temperature is not higher than 20 ° C. The first month, the sprouts develop slowly. Dive in two months, 2-3 seedlings in pots. When shade-tolerant plants rise to 6-7 cm, they are pinched for splendor. Planted in loam or sandy loam, watered abundantly.

Nasturtium

A successful annual for the shade, blooming all summer, is nasturtium. It is a hardy, drought tolerant plant. Plentifully watered young bushes. In the dense shade of flowering, you can not wait, but the leaves are lush, beautiful, used in salads. Low-growing shade-tolerant plants rise up to 20-50 cm, decorated with large corollas up to 5 cm in diameter. Coloring in warm colors - yellow, orange, red, crimson, sometimes fawn. Curly nasturtium, up to 3 m, requires a sunny place.

Seeds are planted in the spring on the site, deepening into the ground by 2-3 cm, when the heat finally sets in, in the middle, end of May. When propagating seedlings in April, they are sown in separate pots, because the root system is weak and superficial, easily injured. Shade-tolerant plants love slightly acidic, light soil, potassium-phosphorus top dressing before flowering.

fragrant tobacco

Fragrant evening plants with a height of 20 to 90 cm, depending on the variety, blooming in crimson, pink, white hues. Shade-tolerant flowers up to 4-8 cm across, open from June to October. Planted in partial shade on light loam, provide moisture, tobacco does not tolerate drought. Planted once, spreads by self-seeding, but blooms later.

Seeds are sown in March and early April, only slightly covered with a substrate. AT individual containers planted with the appearance of the second leaf. Move to the flower bed at the end of May.

Conclusion

Shade-tolerant annuals diversify unsightly areas under trees or in the yard. They are mostly unpretentious, easy care. Planted from seedlings or directly from seeds into the ground, the flowers will create a colorful impression.