2024's Best New Garden Plants: Perennials for Shade Check out these new varieties for 2024 that will grow beautifully in shade. Best new shade perennial introductions for 2024
When you're stumped about what to grow in your shade garden you don't have to settle for the same old hostas or impatiens. These new varieties are a great way to spice up borders that don't get a lot of sun.
‘Table Mountain’ hellebore (Helleborus hybrid)
If you’re looking for some “wow!” power for shade, this gold-foliaged hellebore is a great choice. Leaves emerge green with gold accents in spring and mature to solid gold with purple petioles. Early spring flowers are rosy purple, fade to dusty rose and last for weeks.
Type Perennial Best features Rosy purple early spring blooms and gold foliage Light Part to full shade Soil Well drained Size 8 to 10 in. tall, 12 to 14 in. wide Cold hardy USDA zones 6 to 9 Introducer: Must Have Perennials® Source: Local garden centers
‘Snowtime’ bergenia (Bergenia cordifolia)
Instead of the usual pink flowers for bergenia, ‘Snowtime’ has white blooms on 18-inch-tall stems in early spring and again in fall. The glossy cabbagelike leaves make a great contrast to finer textured plants in the border.
Type Perennial Blooms Clear white flowers in spring and again in fall Light Full sun to part shade Soil Moist, well drained Size 18 in. tall Cold hardy USDA zones 3 to 8 Introducer Jelitto® Source: Local garden centers
Stegosaurus holly fern (Cyrtomium fortunei)
When you want bold texture for your shade garden, Stegosaurus holly fern is a great choice. At up to 24 inches tall, its evergreen hollylike foliage makes a big statement in containers or garden beds.
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I have given up indoor seed starting completely on several occasions. The first time it happened I was a novice gardener. I had ordered seeds of just about every plant that I saw in the garden catalogs without thinking about such practical things as gallons of potting soil, hours of daily watering, and square feet of windowsill space. It also did not occur to me to determine whether or not I had room in my garden for even a fraction of my seedlings. My chaotic efforts eventually produced some wonderful plants, but the process was so exhausting that I said: “Never again.”
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Away from the Show Gardens on Main Avenue, the Sanctuary Gardens offer plenty of inspiration and often on a more achievable scale. A garden that honours 200 years of the National Gallery, a family space that can bounce back from heavy rainfall, and a sensory haven that supports the emotional wellbeing for children undergoing cancer treatment, feature in 2024’s line up.
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So another gardening year has begun and there is lots to do. I’m going to start making videos again this year, but only at the beginning of each month (while the growing season is upon us, not much really happens in December and January). I’ll be telling you what I’ll be doing that month and showing you various little bits.
A particularly tough house and greenhouse plant with long, broad, evergreen leaves. It is a suitable plant for planting outdoors in shady places where winters are mild. Even at New York City it has been known to live outdoors for several years, but the winters there are too severe for it to thrive. It is a native of China and belongs to the Lily family, Liliaceae. The word Aspidistra alludes to the form of the flowers and is derived from aspidiseon, a small, round shield, and probably refers to the shape of the stigma.
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