A Shade Garden is perfect for those areas that don't receive much natural light.
These plants are going to love your garden's shady areas. Most are early bloomers. They pack in as much light of springtime as possible before tree leaves fully open and canopies block out the rays of the sun.
Plants for Shad Gardens
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum pedatum)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Side-Flowering Aster (Aster lateriflourus)
Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa)
Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana)
Marginal Shield Fern (Leatherwood) (Dryopteris marginalis)
Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginica)
Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
Blood Root (Sanguinaria canadensis)
False Solomons Seal (Smilacina racemosa)
Elm-leaved Goldenrod (Solidago ulmifolia)
Great White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
Prairie Trillium (Trillium recuvratum)
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