The most beautiful shade-tolerant perennial flowers for the garden

Perennials by seasons with a description

Perennial ornamental plants, flowering or pleasing to the eye only with their foliage, are the basis of most garden flower beds. The main purpose of the dacha and the garden is to grow fruits, so most of the owners are engaged in this, there is little space and time for flowers or ornamental shrubs. Therefore, it is better to plant plants that grow more and more from year to year, and they need to be planted every three or five years.

Having once planted them on a flower bed, you do not have to worry about the annual decoration of the flower bed, planting new plants. If you have the time and desire, you can always revive the flower garden with annuals, but if there is no time, it will still look beautiful thanks to the overwintered perennials. And they hibernate most often without problems, without effort on the part of the owners.

To decorate the cottage, unpretentious herbs, climbing plants, flowers, shrubs are most often used. All flowering plants can be divided into large groups by flowering time. There are early flowering plants that begin the garden's flowering season as early as May. Plants blooming in June-July are picking up the baton, others continue, which delight the eye from August until the coldest days. But the most favorite among summer residents are those that bloom throughout the warm season. Among them are phloxes, which grow in almost every garden.

There is an opinion that even if all the flowers suddenly disappear, and only phlox remain, they will be able to provide the garden with bright colors and a wonderful aroma from June to September. Phloxes love sunny areas, but can grow in partial shade. They bloom on shaded beds longer, but not as luxuriantly as in the sun.

They are undemanding to the soil, but prefer light, loose, nutritious. They love moisture, but do not tolerate stagnant water at the level of their roots, and this is a depth of up to 15 cm. Perennial phloxes reproduce by seeds, cuttings, autumn (summer too) shoots, dividing a bush. Most often they are planted, dividing the bush, in early spring or autumn, after the autumn planting, the stems are shortened by a third. Bushes hibernate well under a snow cover, if there is no snow, then you need to cover it, otherwise the roots may freeze out.

Garden roses bloom all summer. Usually people love roses, but whoever grows them already knows that they take time and hassle. Young roses can freeze in winter, they are prone to disease, moody. There are few shade-tolerant varieties among them. But you can choose zoned varieties that will grow in your area without much difficulty. Park roses are often planted near fences or buildings, modern Dutch varieties are unpretentious, winter well.

Those who want to see flowering plants in spring grow tulips, daffodils, primroses, crocuses, irises in their garden. Tulips grow well on neutral or slightly alkaline sandy loam soil, it is better to prepare heavy soil by introducing sawdust or river sand. It should be planted in the fall, when the temperature at a depth of 10 - 12 cm drops to + 10, this will be approximately in the middle of September.In 3 - 4 weeks the plant will take root, after which frosts will no longer be able to affect its growth next spring. Most varieties are light-requiring, but can grow in the shade.

But crocuses are quite shade-tolerant, they grow well in the shade of trees and shrubs. White, blue, yellow, lilac - they can bloom in April. These bulbous perennials are not capricious, they tolerate winter perfectly, they do not cause concern to gardeners.

Primroses do not like direct sunlight, bloom in early spring, prefer temperatures no higher than + 12, when the temperature rises, they shed flowers. Many varieties will bloom again when the temperature drops again. They love moisture very much.

Irises are considered sun-loving plants, but they bloom wonderfully in the shade. They are unpretentious, hardy, tolerate cold and drought well - ideal for busy summer residents. There are short and tall ones with large or graceful flowers, after spring flowering, a lush green bush remains all summer. The most common are blue, purple, yellow, less often white terry, brick and two-colored.

Video "Shade-tolerant flowers for the garden»

Video selection of the names of decorative shade-tolerant flowers for growing in the garden.

June - July delight us with the greatest variety of flowers in the garden, when most flowers bloom. Chamomiles, cornflowers, calendula, multi-colored delphiniums - the eyes run up. Majestic delphiniums are able to decorate any flowerbed, they grow beautifully in the sun and in partial shade. Propagated by cuttings, buds, root division. The best time for planting in garden beds is August - September, so that the plants can take root before the frost. The bush is thinned out, breaking out weak or just extra shoots so that the remaining 3 - 4 give a luxurious flowering.

It is difficult to surprise someone with peonies. This convenient combination of a luxurious flower and a completely unpretentious plant is loved by all summer residents. Red, pink, white flowers with a heady sweet scent of peonies do not tolerate shade and lowlands flooded with water, do not like peat. Everything else does not affect their vitality.

Bells also do not like stagnant water, they need to be planted in elevated areas, well lit or slightly shaded, and they will delight with their flowering from June to August. Lilies bloom in July, some varieties later. This perennial belongs to shade-tolerant plants, it is not capricious, does not require special care. They like a lot of water during flowering, and do not like overheating of the soil around their roots. If there is little snow in winter, it is better to cover the lilies.

The last month of summer brings dahlias and gladioli to blossom. Gladioli love a lot of sun and long daylight hours. They need moisture and air temperature from 10 to 25 degrees. Dahlias also love the sun, they are planted in bright flower beds sheltered from the wind with humus-rich soils with good drainage. A tall plant (up to 2.5 m) with an incredibly varied flowering palette and odorless can become a garden decoration if grown in light or slightly shaded areas.

Exquisite chrysanthemums also love illuminated places. They bloom no earlier than September, housewives often transplant flowering chrysanthemums indoors to allow them to bloom. In the garden bed, they can withstand a drop in temperature to -7 degrees, they winter well even in Siberia (where roots with shortened stems are covered with peat and spruce branches).

Ideas for a shady flower garden

Shade-tolerant plants are those that easily adapt to a lack of sunlight. It is they, along with the shade-loving ones, who must make flower beds in the shady corners of the garden plot. Hosts occupy a special place among them. They look great from spring and thrive in little sunlight and bloom until mid-autumn. But they are appreciated not even for the flowers, but for the decorativeness of the bush.

Bright astilbe, blooming almost all summer and autumn, will perfectly revive any flower garden in a shaded corner of the garden. Ferns, of which there are a huge number of species, will become an irreplaceable main background, shading the bright flowers of periwinkle, begonias, frost-resistant petunias that can bloom in the shade. Shade-tolerant plants do not give long-term luxurious flowering, but they look great all season, decorating the garden with their foliage and embossed bushes.

The more valuable are the beautiful flowers of lily of the valley, thick-leaved bergenia, saxifrage, lungwort, foxglove and liverwort, violet and thyroid podophyllum. Doronicum (Yellow chamomile) blooms even longer in the shade, the iris and daylily will bloom for a long time and luxuriously in partial shade, replacing each other. By creating a flower bed in a shaded place, you can plant snowdrops, hyacinths, primroses. They will bloom before the trees shade them. Ivy and wild grapes, if there is room to twist nearby, will provide lush greenery in summer and unimaginable brightness in autumn.

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A video for growers with a selection of photos of perennial garden flowers that do not require special care.