We recommend maples (acer), camellia, rangiora (brachyglottis), cabbage tree (cordyline), dogwood (cornus), puka (meryta sinclarii), pseudopanax, rhododendron, nikau palm (rhopalostylis), rimu (dacrydium), and viburnum. Or choose from our great range of deciduous trees for summer shade and autumn colour.
What is a flowering shrub that likes shade?
Regardless, both rhododendrons and azaleas are great flowering shrubs for shade. They are both attractive to early season pollinators and make beautiful statements in partial to full shade. Here are some excellent varieties of both rhodies and azaleas. Azaleas are excellent flowering evergreen shrubs for shade.
What flowering plant does well in shade?
Flowers to grow in shade
- Astilbe.
- Bee balm.
- Bellflowers.
- Bleeding-Heart.
- Forget-me-not.
- Foxglove.
- Hellebore.
- Hydrangea.
What can I plant in a shady raised bed?
10 Great Plants for Shade
- Heuchera (Coral Bells)
- Lamium Maculatum (Dead Nettle)
- Tiarella cordifolia (Foamflower)
- Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
- Astilbe.
- Digitalis (Foxglove)
- Hakonechloa (Japanese forest grass)
- Primula (Primrose)
What Colourful shrubs grow in shade?
15 Shrubs for Shade Gardens
- Oakleaf Hydrangea. For a nearly carefree shrub, you can’t beat this native hydrangea.
- ‘Pink Charm’ Mountain Laurel.
- Rhododendron.
- Opening Day Doublefile Viburnum.
- Virginia Sweetspire.
- Camellia.
- Serviceberry.
- Japanese Pieris.
Can hydrangeas take full shade?
These shrubs grow best in partial or full shade, with a little direct morning sun and a lot of indirect light, such as the filtered light found under a high-canopied leafy tree. Many varieties of hydrangea love this type of location.
What plants will grow in shade under trees?
Some of the more popular shade- and root-tolerant woodland plants include understory shrubs such as oakleaf hydrangea, azaleas, euonymus, variegated aucuba, soft-tip yucca, nandina, many hollies, mahonia, and spirea. These generally do very well, as you can see from a drive around any older, established neighborhoods.
What is the most shade tolerant hydrangea?
Best Hydrangeas For Shade
- Mophead Hydrangeas (big leaf) – Hydrangea macrophylla.
- Lacecap Hydrangeas – Hydrangea macrophylla normalis.
- Mountain Hydrangeas – Hydrangea macrophylla ssp. Serrata.
- Climbing Hydrangeas – Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris.
Does lavender grow in the shade?
No, ideally it’s best that all types of lavender are exposed to full sun for most of the day. Hardier varieties (Hidcote and Grosso) may survive but it’s best to find a sunny spot to plant them in.
What are the best plants to plant under trees in NZ?
Where there is a warm sheltered spot with no frost, the choice of shade loving plants expands to the subtropical treasures like Vireya rhododendrons and clivias in rich orange or yellow. With thick, strappy leaves, clivias look amazing mass planted under trees, as do NZ native renga renga lilies with their masses of little white lily flowers.
What are the best shrubs to grow in the shade?
I highly recommend bergenia as a tough, low-maintenance plant that thrives in shade. It spreads slowly but if you lift plants every couple of years and replant the rooted rhizomes, about 300mm apart, they will cover the ground much faster. Ligularias are also tough plants.
What are the best hellebores to plant in NZ?
SALLY TAGG / NZ GARDENER. Hellebores planted under deciduous trees are covered with nodding flowers all winter. Varieties such as ‘Anna’s Red’ and ‘Penny’s Pink’ have the most incredible foliage. They are beautiful subjects for containers too as their foliage alone would score 10 out of 10.
What are the best plants to plant in a south facing garden?
Plants for south-facing, shady gardens. Hellebores, commonly known as winter roses, flower in speckled shades of pink, lime, maroon and white, with hybrids adding pale hues of yellow and apricot as well as deep inky purple.
