Which Plants To Grow In The Garden's Shady Part?

Do you have a vegetable garden?

Do you wish to plant a vegetable crop in the shady part of your garden?

Do you wish to plant perennials in your garden?

Do you wish to plant annuals in your garden?

Do you wish to plant biennials in your garden?

Do you wish to plant shrubs in your garden?

Do you wish to plant evergreen shrubs in your garden?

Do you wish to plant vines in your garden?

Vegetables crops that will grow in light to partial shade are: arugula, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, Chinese cabbage, corn salad, endive, escarole, garlic, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, leaf lettuce, leeks, mustard, New Zealand spinach, parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, salsify scallion, sorrel, spinach, turnips, and watercress.

Herbs that will grow in light to partial shade are angelica, basil, catnip, chervil, chives, costmary, garden cress, germander, horseradish, lemon balm, lovage, mint, parsley, rosemary, sweet flag, sweet woodruff, and valerian.

You can grow shade-tolerant perennials like Maidenhair Fern, Anemone, Columbine, Meadowsweet, Pigsqueek, Marsh Marigold, Serbian Bellflower, Black Snakeroot, Lily-of-the-Valley, Bunchberry, Fumitory, Bleeding Heart, Leopard’s Bane, Bishop’s Hat, Snowdrops, Sweet Woodruff, Plantain Lily, Crested Iris, Osmunda fern, Phlox, Creeping Phlox, Jacob’s Ladder, Solomon’s Seal, Lungwort, Sweet Violet.

You can grow shade-tolerant annuals like Begonia, Slipper Flower, Coleus, Fuchsia, Monkey Flower, Forget-me-not, Cineraria.

You can grow shade-tolerant biennials like Foxgloves or Moneytree.

You can grow shade-tolerant shrubs like Chokecherry, Azalea, Barberry, Beautyberry, Carolina Allspice, Japanese Quince, Winter Hazel, European Filbert, Rock Cotoneaster, Winged Euonymus, Forsythia, Chinese Witch Hazel, Witch Hazel, Hydrangeas and Hortensias, Holly, Beauty Bush, Mock Orange, Rhododendron, Elderberry, Spirea, Blueberry.

You can grow shade tolerant evergreen shrubs like Bog Rosemary, Aucuba, Boxwood, Japanese Camellia, Fall Flowering Camellia, Mexican Mock Orange, Winter Daphne, Euonymus, Salal, Japanese Holly, Mountain Laurel, Drooping Leucothoe, Oregon Grape, Heavenly Bamboo, Andromeda, SweetBox, Yew.

You can grow shade-tolerant vines like Chocolate Vine, Evergreen Clematis, Anemone Clematis, Jackman’s Clematis, Winter Creeper, Climbing Hydrangea, Trumpet Honeysuckle Vine, Virginia Creeper, Boston Ivy.

You can grow shade-tolerant small trees like Fullmoon Maple, Laceleaf Maple, Flamingo Box Elder, Alder, Redbud, Flowering Dogwood, Kousa Dogwood, Cornelian Cherry, Saucer Magnolia, Sourwood, Japanese Stewartia, Japanese Snowbell.