Patio Flowers For Shade

Compact enough to use in containers yet large enough for foundation plantings or borders they provide fabulous texture to the shade garden.

Patio flowers for shade.

For best season long color display both annuals and perennials which come back every year on your patio. Shade means the area does not receive direct sunlight at all or maybe only a tiny bit of early morning sun. Here are 30 stunning shade plant garden combinations with. There are some very showy colorful and easy care shade loving plants that will add much needed vibrant colors and cheerfulness to a dark shady spot such as a covered patio or the north side of your house.

For perennial shade flowers try astilbe aka false spirea meadowsweet and false goat s beard. When we think of shade plants we often picture lush plants with deep green foliage and very few flowers. For dry shade soft caress has everything we love about mahonia without the pesky spines. But don t choose these tropical plants just for their flowers the leaves provides brilliant exotic color as well.

Get a mix of varieties with different bloom times for a parade of color all summer long. Move over flowers and foliage because the brilliant fruits of ornamental peppers capsicum anuum shine as brightly as any blooms on a hot summer day ornamental peppers are ready to grow on your patio as soon as the weather is right for growing tomatoes although ornamental peppers are small plants with small root balls they grow well in large pots that don t dry. Expect bright yellow flowers from fall through early spring and frosty indigo colored berries in the fall.