Some Shade and Partial Shade plants good for up to zone 4

Shade is described as getting less than 4 hours of direct sun lite per day, and avoiding the hot afternoon sun lite. More than that is considered partial shade, up to 8 hours.
This group can be used as shade plants:
Barrenwort, Bergenia, (wild flower) Bloodroot, Bunchberry, Ferns, Foamflower, Grass, Sedge, Helleborus, Hostas, Ivy English, (wild flower) Jack In The Pulpit, Lamium, Lily of the Valley, Liriope, Mayflower, Myrtle, Pachysandra, Pulmonaria, Shamrock Strawberry, (wild flower) Shooting Stars, Snow on the Mountain, Solomon's Seal, Spiderwort, Sweet Woodruff, (wild flower) Trillium, Virginia Bluebells and Wood Poppy Golden.
This group are partial shade:
Astilbe, Bear's Breech, Bleeding Heart, Brunnera, Chrysogonum, Cimicifuga, Coral Bells, Corydalis, Forget-me-not, Ginger, Grass Hakonechloa, Jacob's Ladder, Ligularia, (wild flower) Marsh Marigold, Meadow Rue, Meadowsweet, Merrybells, Monkshood, Primrose, Rodger's Flower, Toad Lily, Turtlehead and Viola.

This is a partial list to start with.

Very Happy

Al

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Oh, let me sing the praises of the Daylilly! They do come back year after year, each year the clump gets bigger. Easy to divide, virtually pest-free, not picky about sun or soil, a million varieties, colors, sizes and shapes. I've only had one die on me and it was entirely my fault, not its (?). Did I mention inexpensive? Except for the newly introduced varieties, they can be had for a song. We have several local "farms" that grow them and you can go pick out the ones you like when they are in bloom. They will dig them for you-usually a great big clump that you can then take home and divide simply by shoving your spade down thru the middle of the clump. The sword-shaped foliage comes up early and doesn't die back after blooming, so you always(except winter) have the nice green "filler". Hummingbirds love the trumpet shaped flower. Some are scented and others are not, so I try to always get the scented; it gives me an excuse to get really close to them. Need something tall for the back of the garden? A lilly variety exists in the color you need. Short for the front? Again any color is available. The blooms don't last but 2-3 weeks, but again there are so many varieties and they all bloom at different times. If planned carefully, you can have lillies in bloom from June-Sept. Also some have only one bloom per scape and some have many, so you want to get the ones with multiple blooms per scape--there is a name for that I think and I'll look it up if you're interested. I love Daylilies. Are you sorry you asked?

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Barbara Craig
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