What to plant in a shady garden

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• PeggyTX Posts: 556

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  What about Coleus?  I'm rooting a bunch in water today to expand those horizons.   There are so many colorful varieties and different leaf shapes to choose from.  Mine love their shade tree setting where only a bit of sunshine peeks through:   

  And here's a rust colored one mixed with lime-colored sweet potato vine: 
  

  
  

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  July 2019

  The coleus look great, but they're not hardy in most of the UK. We normally think of them as houseplants.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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