For best season long color display both annuals and perennials which come back every year on your patio.
Patio flowers for shade.
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.
Compact enough to use in containers yet large enough for foundation plantings or borders they provide fabulous texture to the shade garden.
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Astilbes have feathery plume like blooms that will stand above ferny foliage making them the perfect thriller in a mixed container garden.
Here are 30 stunning shade plant garden combinations with.
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.
Shade means the area does not receive direct sunlight at all or maybe only a tiny bit of early morning sun.
For perennial shade flowers try astilbe aka false spirea meadowsweet and false goat s beard.
For dry shade soft caress has everything we love about mahonia without the pesky spines.
Get a mix of varieties with different bloom times for a parade of color all summer long.
Expect bright yellow flowers from fall through early spring and frosty indigo colored berries in the fall.