What plants will grow in pots in full shade?
Shade-loving flowers aren’t too hard to find—check your local garden store. Try impatiens, coleus, sweet potato vines, violas, petunias, pansies, hostas, astilbes, and trilliums. They look great and will thrive in full to partial shade. Plants with attractive foliage, like coleus, offer reliable season-long color with a nearly endless array of colors. Other reliable foliage standbys include Japanese painted fern, sweet potato vine, and Rex begonias. Flowering plants like impatiens, fuchsias, or begonias such as ‘Bonfire’ add color.Shade-loving flowers aren’t too hard to find—check your local garden store. Try impatiens, coleus, sweet potato vines, violas, petunias, pansies, hostas, astilbes, and trilliums. They look great and will thrive in full to partial shade. And don’t forget to think vertically when designing your containers.
What annual flowers do well in both sun and shade?
Big® Begonias These begonias produce lush, eye-catching blooms in hanging baskets, large containers, and landscape plantings. Since they perform well in both sun and shade, they’re ideal for many garden settings. BEGONIA (Begonia spp. Begonia is a popular bedding plant, providing months of continuous color from summer into fall. Single or double flowers occur in a wide range of colors. Use this shade-loving plant in pots, hanging baskets, and to brighten up shady areas of the yard.
Can I grow anything in full shade?
Plants that require full shade or partial shade range from annual and perennial flowering plants to shrubs, vines, and ground covers. Light shade plants for dry soil perennials: alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle), brunnera macrophylla (siberian bugloss), geranium phaeum, epimedium (barrenwort). Bulbs: anemone nemorosa (woodflower), bluebell, cyclamen. Annuals/biennials: digitalis purpurea (foxglove), honesty (lunaria annua).