Shade Perennials Illinois

Indoor/Outdoor is an option as a granular, slow release fertilizer that can be applied while planting. Genus name honors Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host (1761-1834). Alternately, Hosta Sum and Substance can be planted with minions, or smaller,...

The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked.

Prefers bright shade and humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate average to dry soils and full shade. They can be used as an edging plant or en mass for a showy ground cover.

It flowers bloom from July to August. Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking. Hostas are not only known for their flowers, they also provide bright color in shade with wonderful foliage.

It is a naturally occurring beneficial fungus that colonizes on the new growing roots of plants. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers.

The original purple coral bells, it has maple or ivy-like leaves which are an attractive deep purple above and beet-red beneath. Best grown in organically rich, humusy, well-drained soils.

Few plants shine as brightly as Sweet Kate does in the shade garden. Use this native shade lover in open woodland gardens or along streams or ponds. The purple iris like flowers are striking against the gold foliage.

Soils must not be allowed to dry out. They thrive in open or dappled shade. It is native to woodland hillsides and mountain slopes in Japan, China and Taiwan. All ferns grow best in soils with high organic matter content.

This Heucheralle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting.

This shade perennial is a great addition to your yard or landscape. Looks great in containers or as an edging. This heuchera shade perennial is a robust grower with fuzzy leaves that range in color from apricot to amber with purple-red undersides.

Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which typically grow to 12-15” tall. It is noted for its burgundy-pink flower buds, its late winter bloom of creamy white flowers...

Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested. An introduction of Wayside Gardens of Hodges, South Carolina.

Prefers light to moderate shade. Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided into glossy, leathery, deeply-lobed, often toothed, lanceolate to elliptic segments.

Parentage determines the best culture including optimum sun exposure. Scorch and general foliage decline may occur if soils are allowed to dry out. Small, creamy white flowers borne in open, airy panicles appear in late spring to early summer on slender,...

Deer resistant. Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall. Makes a great ground cover for shade. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off...

Similar in appearance to the showy, old garden bleeding heart from Asia, is taller and wider, its flowers are larger and its foliage is less dissected and usually goes dormant by mid-summer.

It features shiny, bipinnate, dark green fronds (to 1-2' long) with finely divided but overlapping pinnae. Details: Excellent selection for shaded areas in the landscape, including borders, woodland gardens, shade gardens, wild gardens and foundations.

It prefers no direct sun—a delight for shade gardeners—and blooms happily in April and May. With such showy flowers, they deserve to be in the front of the shade garden. They prefer moist, humusy soil.

Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product at the recommended rate this will give the plant like , which will give a boost of nitrogen and potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at...

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at...

New plants can be obtained from division of the clumps (best in spring) and from seedlings which grow up around the plants as a result of self seeding. Although the foliage is evergreen, it may become scorched and tattered in extremely harsh winters,...

After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Aster Divaricatus a good deep watering. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products...

Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.

Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.

Flowers give way to distinctive, beaked seed capsules which give rise to the common name of crane's bill. Deeply cut, palmately 5-lobed, dark green leaves (to 6″ across). Geranium maculatum forms a mound of foliage that grows to 24″ tall and 18″...

The leaves on plants in the Malvaceae family are alternate, simple and veined. Hibiscus are in the family Malvaceae, which also represents mallow, hollyhock and even cotton. The mallow flowers are about 4 inches across, and it grows best in full sun but...