Shade-tolerant plants for the garden. Ampel shade-tolerant plants

Whatever the site or garden, there is always one or several corners on it, where the sun's rays practically do not fall, whether it be a shadow from a house or large trees. But do not worry about it. Flora is very rich in species, and you can always pick up shade-loving or shade-tolerant plants for the garden, which will delight with flowering and decorative leaves.

Classification of plants according to exacting requirements for lighting

Sunlight, water and good, fertile soils - these are the basic requirements of plants, which guarantee their successful cultivation. But not all flowers and trees like bright sun rays, depending on this, they are divided into three groups.

1. Photophilous plants for the garden, the second name is heliophytes. They like open spaces and sunlight, they can perish in shading. This group includes the vast majority of garden flowers. From annuals: petunia, marigolds, lobelia, godetsia, etc. From perennial, for example, daylily, rudbeckia, gaylard, Arabis, chist. And also trees: maple Ginnal, thuya western, walnut Manchurian.
2. Shade-tolerant plants for the garden. This group includes species that also love sunlight, but they only have 5-6 hours in the first or second half of the day. However, bloom may not be so abundant and prolonged. This group includes such plants as the oak forest, the Astilba, the Alpine catchment (in the first photo), the dicentra, the peony, the woods, and so on.
3. Shade-loving plants for the garden. These species prefer to grow in secluded corners, where there is almost no sun. They, as a rule, differ leaves of the saturated green color. First of all, these are ferns, hosts, lilies of the valley, lungwort, foxglove, etc.

Shade-tolerant coniferous plants for the garden

Evergreen trees and shrubs always give the garden a special charm and pleases the eye throughout the year. All of them have an amazing aroma that not only enhances the mood, but also disinfects the air. There are a lot of species of coniferous plants, they differ in size, shape of the crown, exacting to the soil and illumination. Many plants do not like the bright sun, and young specimens all without exception require some shading during the first stages of growth. The most popular among gardeners are the following varieties of shade-tolerant conifers:

• Spruce Canadian, common, prickly, Serbian and "Entelmani";
• Siberian fir, balsamic, Canadian, single-colored;
• Yew "Repandence" and Canadian (pictured);
• Touevik drooping (Japanese);
• Ehiniformis;
• Microbiota cross-section.

All conifers are rather unpretentious, but some require abundant watering and shelter for the winter. Many decorative species grow quite slowly, which allows them to be used on alpine slides, in group plantings.

Choosing shade-tolerant shrubs

Shade-tolerant plants for this group's garden and garden can be of a purely decorative nature or can also be of practical use. In addition, distinguish garden shrubs decorative-deciduous and flowering. Let us dwell on the most popular and widespread ones.

• Common dogwood - a shrub highly decorative, is used for group planting and creating hedges. In spring it is covered with yellow fragrant flowers, collected in umbellate inflorescences, and by autumn bright fruits.
• Lilac is a universal shrub that grows up to 5 meters in height. It has high frost resistance, drought resistance, grows with high air pollution. He prefers sunny places, but he feels well in the penumbra, though, the blooming may not be so abundant.
• Weigel - decorative shade-tolerant shrub, flowering abundant, begins with the middle-end of May. Suitable for creating hedges, landing under the crowns of large trees.
• Brownie (red and black, Canadian) - the plant is decorative at the time of flowering and fruiting.
• Jasmine (chubushnik) - shade-tolerant, unpretentious, winter-hardy. In summer, it is abundantly covered with flowers with a thick, strong aroma.
• Spirea. There are different varieties, flowering in spring and summer, inflorescences can be of different shades (from white to purple).

Also it is necessary to note the following shade-tolerant plants for the garden, which are part of the group of shrubs and have decorative leaves: cottong, boxwood, spindle (winged and warty), barberry Tunberga.

Shade-tolerant trees in the garden

If you want to choose for the garden is not fruit trees, but decorative, then it is worth paying attention to several types. Maple remains one of the most popular trees for gardening. Large dissected leaves are especially beautiful in autumn, when they acquire a bright color. There are a lot of maple species: field, acicular, silver, white, sugar, Japanese. The tree forms a beautiful sprawling crown and grows fast enough . In the trunks it is quite possible to plant shade-tolerant flowering plants for the garden.

Very often for gardening use beech and hornbeam, they have garden varieties and forms. They look great not only in group, but also single plantings, and the crown is easy to prune and form.

Fruit trees and shrubs growing in the shade

Not many fruit-berry trees and shrubs are able to grow and give a good harvest in the shade, they still need the sun. Of the most resistant to lack of light, it is worth noting raspberries and blackberries, since their natural habitat is forest thickets and moist ravines, they tolerate penumbra well. You can also plant barberry and gooseberries, which will be good neighbors mentioned species. The first shrub is winter-hardy, grows rapidly and yields a good harvest of berries, which have a specific sour taste. Gooseberries (pictured) are also characterized by very valuable fruits that are used to make jam and compotes.

Now pick up shade-tolerant fruit plants for the garden is much easier, because varieties are constantly updated. Just have to choose the product according to your wishes. Address directly to the nurseries, as the markets are often sold absolutely not what is stated on the package.

Grassy shade-tolerant perennial plants for the garden

If your garden mainly consists of shady corners, then this is no reason to refuse to plant flowers. Perennials include plants that winter in the soil for many years, while the above-ground part dies yearly, and the roots remain alive. The main advantage of shade-tolerant perennial flowers is the decorative foliage.

From the earliest spring your garden is able to decorate bulbous primroses. At this time, the trees have not yet dissolved the leaves, and light freely penetrates into all corners of the garden. These can be early-flowering tulips, crocuses, scallop, hazel grouses, daffodils, muscari.

From perennials that will blossom all summer, we recommend the usual peonies (for penumbra) and wild peonies, aronik, adonis, badan catchment (aquilegia), daylily, hosts. Also do not ignore the two-year-old flowers: foxglove, mallow, forget-me-nots.

Shade-tolerant annuals in the garden

These plants can diversify any flower bed or flower garden. The number of species and varieties can not be transferred. Even for a shady garden, you can easily pick up about a dozen different annual flowers. We give only a few of the most unpretentious and common species as an example.

• Ageratum - a low plant forms a carpet of blue inflorescences, flowering continues from the beginning of summer until late autumn. Prefers semi-shady places.
• Kobeja is a one-year-old vine that fuses the entire surface of the support with a green carpet, throughout the summer large bell-shaped flowers of various shades appear.
• Cosmee - a beautiful annual, actively breeding self-sowing. It is quite high (about 1 m) and grows rapidly, which allows filling this vacant place with a given plant in a short time.
• Leo (photo above), plants of different sizes depending on the variety with spiked fragrant inflorescences.

And also merit the attention of Nemesis and Mimulus.

Horizontal landscaping of shady garden areas

To do this, use shade-resistant climbing plants for the garden (they are also called lianas). Do not forget that if you choose perennial species, they will need a strong support, as they gain a sufficiently large mass. This especially applies to semi-timber varieties. The most famous is the girl's grapes, or parthenocissus (pictured). Liana grows to a height of up to 15 meters, while it is undemanding to the soil and does not require additional care. The only difference, in a heavily shaded place, leaves can be somewhat smaller in size and not so bright.

It is often used for vertical landscaping clematis, but it is suitable for a warm climate with mild winters. This is a pretty capricious vine, prefers sunny places, although slight shading is also possible. It is also worth noting such plants as kirkazon, drevogubets, princes.

Shade-tolerant ampelian plants

The arbor, terrace or patio is difficult to imagine without the beautiful bushes of flowers hanging their green whips from suspended flowerpots. Ampel shade-tolerant plants for the garden are not numerous, in comparison with their sun-loving relatives, but still they are. In particular, lobelia, blossoming in a variety of pure shades of blue and blue. In the penumbra it will feel quite good, the main thing is to provide it with fertile soil and regular watering.

Much less often you can meet a bacon, a dichondra and a nolin strange. Despite the complex and unfamiliar names, these plants are rather unpretentious and in a short time form thickets densely strewn with bright colors.

Choosing decorative shade-tolerant plants for the garden, do not expect from them abundant flowering, large and double inflorescences. All of them are valued primarily for the decorative appearance of the leaves.