First Class Hanging Plants That Like Shade

The plant features long narrow leaves that are entirely silver to spotted silver.

Hanging plants that like shade. Lungwort loves the shade but tolerates the sun if planted in soil that remains moist. Maintaining this balance is important. Its an attractive accent plant that will tolerate some sun though its best color occurs in shade.

This species is a popular easy-to-care-for shade-loving house plant that grows up to 1 tall. Grown primarily for its pretty foliage its mounding habit shoots up small flower spikes in spring to mid-summer. In most cases baskets are planted with a thriller filler and spiller effect.

Next begin planting shade flowers in hanging baskets according to the desired visual design. The silverish foliage features blue white or pink flowers that bloom in early spring. By BBC Gardeners World MagazineJan 21 20214 mins to read.

Heucheras also come by the name coral bells or alumroot. It sprouts a green flower in the summer. While some hanging basket flowers for shade will do best in full shade others may need some sunlight in order to bloom well.

Ferns pair well with nearly any woodland shade plant such as primrose Primula bishops hat Epimedium hosta Hosta masterwort Astrantia and wood sorrel Oxalis. Coleus solenostemon scutellarioides Wizard Mix. From spring to fall fuchsias produce dozens of brightly colored teardrop-shaped flowers from trailing stems and they do so in the kind of shady conditions where most plants struggle.

Growing Succulents in the Shade. Most coleus plants like shade and work well indoors. This hardy perennial is striking in borders with other shade-loving perennials but they also look fabulous planted solo in containers.