Plants for shaded areas

ds1980

primula????

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I have one tiny bed like this, it's against the fence and it gets just a short period of sun around about first sparrowchirp from mid May - mid July before remaining in shade the rest of the time.

I created a woodland bed with it.

so I've got white foxgloves
white salvia
marguerites
dicentra alba
gypsophila
hollyhock

red hot poker primula
red dianthus

cowslip

two shades of purple aquilegia

quaking grass

heuchera plum pudding

black grass

pulmonaria

native fern

ladies mantle

dark blue sweet peas (currently being devoured by the slug farm I seem to have established out the back)

Rambling Rector rose.


Earlier in the year, there are snowdrops and bluebells. Plus white pheasants eye Narcissus, dark purple tulips and lots of random stuff from the wildflower seed I randomly chucked over the garden.


It's definitely a work in progress, and I had lost almost everything over the winter that I planted last year, so I started from scratch this spring (but in fairness, I also lost the entire lawn), but it looks like it belongs now.


I may be brave enough to try fritillaries, hellebores and delphiniums again if I don't see the neighbours' plants decimated by the Red Peril this summer.



Basically, I'd suggest getting woodland types, but not spending a fortune on them as some may not make it.