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Yellow perennials for partial shade?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    I can't get most perennials to return because of the slug situ. But I loved Lemon Queen while I had it.


  • owd potterowd potter Posts: 979
    Ligularia dentata, IF it is damp shade.
    They are fine with some sun, but need to be in damp or moist ground, they will keel over if they dry out.
    I grow them for the gorgeous foliage, large plates of olive & maroon leaves, but they send up spikes of bright yellow daisy like flowers in late summer
    Slugs love 'em tho'
    Just another day at the plant...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    Primroses, cowslips
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    edited March 2022
    Fire said:
    Primroses, cowslips

    Hmmm...I'm not a fan.  There's something about them I just don't like....
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Would it be pointless attempting fennel?
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    For some late summer/early autumn colour try Rudbeckia fulgida var. Goldsturm which will be fine with four hours of sun.  The flowers are a rich golden yellow which really stands out at a time when other perennials are fading.  It also bulks up well, looks good with grasses and is popular with bees and other pollinators.

    Thank you.  Very "sunshiny"
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Helianthus Lemon Queen kept flopping in my garden Now each spring I lift and split it.
    As a result it doesn't get so tall and is fine.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Coreopsis moonbeam
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    B3 said:
    Coreopsis moonbeam

    Very nice.  Thank you.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I don't have anything to add in the way of yellow-flowered perennials, but you could put some daffodils in between them for spring colour. Or yellow crocuses if you prefer the more orange-y egg-yolk yellow (to my eye they clash horribly with yellow daffs). Possibly also the yellow-variegated types of hostas. Their flowers would be white or mauve which go OK with yellow (to me) but they can be nipped off if you don't like them.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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