Annuals For Shade

Heucherella Brass Lantern combines the best traits of Heuchera and Tiarella. Scorch and general foliage decline usually occur if soils are allowed to dry out. Best grown in organically rich, humusy, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part...

Hosta Sum and Substance does best in part to full shade and handles some direct, filtered sun. A lively, personable plant, Hosta Sum and Substance looks best when paired with japanese maples, black mondo grass, or heucheras.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. This is not to be rushed. Gorgeous in mass plantings but will not tolerate long periods of drought.

This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins. They can be used as an edging plant or en mass for a showy ground cover.

Evergreen compound leaves are deeply lobed and divided into 3-7, narrow, lance-shaped to elliptic, usually-toothed leaflets per leaf. Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested.

Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested. Hellebore Royal Heritage plants are bushy, clump-forming perennials that typically grow 18-24″ tall with glossy, deeply-cut,...

Evergreen perennial with cup-shaped nodding blooms in colors ranging from cream, pink to red in late winter. Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes have inside...

Improve drainage by using a mixture of half potting soil and half perlite.As a general rule, impatiens planted in flower beds benefit from watering once every week. Containerized impatiens must be planted in a pot with a drainage hole.

This is not to be rushed. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients.

So named due to its copper color when young, the semi-evergreen Autumn Fern matures to a lovely dark green. In spring, the new leaves of this evergreen start out a coppery pink, then in summer turn green, and finally in fall, turn a rust shade.

Remember that it goes dormant in mid-summer. They prefer moist, humusy soil. A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems.

Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens. Let this lime green superstar make your shade garden shine. Does well in containers. Mass as in a group as a ground cover .

The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves. Looks great in containers or as an edging.

This is a dependable and hardy fern, that lends elegance to the shade border and combines well with Carex, Heuchera and other ferns. Tassel fern is an evergreen fern that is native to Japan and southern Korea.

From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike any other. The purple iris like flowers are striking against the gold foliage.

In cooler climates, flowering may continue throughout the summer, but in the hotter climates, the flowering will generally stop in hot weather, with a possible rebloom occurring when the weather cools in late summer or early fall.

Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years. The foliage color holds best in partial shade. Prefers part shade (particularly with afternoon shade) in the hot summers of the deep South.

If you plant them in containers, they will do well in pots with self-watering reservoirs. New Guinea impatiens, however, are a near relative that can thrive in partial sun as well as mostly shady areas.

Although the foliage is evergreen, it may become scorched and tattered in extremely harsh winters, particularly if not sited in locations protected from cold winter winds and/or insulated by snow cover.

In its native homelands it receives 59 to 79 inches of rainfall a year, and it requires constantly moist soil in cultivation.Spacing for Jamaican sorrel depends on the reason for growing it, but all plants benefit from mulching.

The proper amount of light is critical for petunias to produce lush, healthy foliage and ample flowers. Set the petunias in a sunny window where they receive at least six hours of direct light a day.

Alternatively, too little water may cause impatiens' leaves to turn yellow as well. Not getting the correct amount of fertilizer may stunt plant growth and turn leaves yellow. Other diseases affecting impatiens include verticillium wilt and botrytis blight.

Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall. Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall.

Common name of alum root is in reference to the medicinal use of some species plants as an astringent to stop bleeding. Genus name honors Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677-1747), physician, botanist and medicinal plant expert at Wittenberg University,...

Annual bread-seed or lettuce-leaf poppies (Papaver somniferum) produce flat, tissue-papery blooms in shades of pink, red, purple and white. These are the same poppies that are the source of opium and it is illegal in the United States to grow them for...

Warm-season plants with a long growing season are especially vulnerable to frost damage early or late in the year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains probability data for the first and last frost and freeze of the season in...

Portulaca grandiflora, commonly called moss rose, grows as a colorful, spreading ground cover in beds, borders and containers. When adding plants to the garden, give moss rose the room it needs to reach its full spread and avoid planting tall plants nearby...