Thanks for all your suggestions. That's a great help and I have many ideas for my border now.
The border is shaded from a 6ft fence, lilac tree and a yew tree I think.I'm going to go for whites, purples and blue flowers mixed with green foliage/furns etc.
The kind of shade is important. Some things billed as shade tolerant are still moisture-hungry. I have some drought in my largely shade garden and a LOT of slugs and snails which eat even Geranium leaves. I have struggled even with Astrantias and Liriope because I am on alkaline clay. Surefire things have been hydrangeas, hellebores, ferns, Solomon's Seal, sarcococca, lily of the valley, Geranium 'Lily Lovell' (brilliant for weeks and weeks of flower, then you can cut the flowering stems back); Lysimachia 'Firecracker', fuchsias, umbellifers like sweet cicely. Where the shade is a bit lighter, Anemone x hybrida, cyclamen, numerous other hardy geraniums.
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Thanks for all your suggestions. That's a great help and I have many ideas for my border now.
The border is shaded from a 6ft fence, lilac tree and a yew tree I think.I'm going to go for whites, purples and blue flowers mixed with green foliage/furns etc.
Thanks again!
Bugle makes excellent ground cover in shade, although can be a bit over enthusiastic.
The kind of shade is important. Some things billed as shade tolerant are still moisture-hungry. I have some drought in my largely shade garden and a LOT of slugs and snails which eat even Geranium leaves. I have struggled even with Astrantias and Liriope because I am on alkaline clay. Surefire things have been hydrangeas, hellebores, ferns, Solomon's Seal, sarcococca, lily of the valley, Geranium 'Lily Lovell' (brilliant for weeks and weeks of flower, then you can cut the flowering stems back); Lysimachia 'Firecracker', fuchsias, umbellifers like sweet cicely. Where the shade is a bit lighter, Anemone x hybrida, cyclamen, numerous other hardy geraniums.