What are your favourites and successes grown in partial shade?

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  January 2021

  HOSTAS 

  Devon.

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• Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134

  January 2021

  I have less experience of chalk. In general terms, it does depend on what look you’re going for. I have certainly found some plants that aren’t on the standard lists of shade plants but which are excellent both for leaf textures and flowers. Here are some personal favourites:
  
  Roscoea ‘Blackthorn Strain’
  Hellebores
  Sarcococca
  Aster schreberi
  Hardy Fuchsia 
  Geranium nodosum ‘Hexham Big Eyes’
  Cyclamen, snowdrops, ferns
  
  However, I’m gardening on heavy clay, so not all of these will be applicable.

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• TheVanguard Posts: 136

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  I planted a new shady border on chalk last September..it’s a bit early to tell what the successes would be...the hostas and geraniums I planted haven’t done as well as I thought..but hopefully will do more this year.
  
  I planted one area in the corner with ferns and a tree fern has put on a lot of new fronds already.
  
  Also a alstroemeria (Indian summer) has done well to the point it might be straying from vigorous to thuggish, but it’s a lovely plant. 
  
  Hopefully in a couple of years I’ll have a much better idea but in the few first months those two seem to have out performed the others for me.
  
  oh I should mention bluebells I pull them up by the fist full in that area and always seem to have loads! 
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  January 2021

  Brunnera Jack Frost grew well in my limestone garden in part shade, so did campanulas, some hardy geraniums, Hostas, cyclamen, snowdops, Autumn Anemone, Honorine Jobert - but they aren't evergreen. Hellebores grew well and they are evergreen, but don't have summer flowers.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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