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Yellow perennials for partial shade?

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you want any whites for the shadier spots, there are plenty. Polemonium, Dicentra,  Polygonatum, Convallaria [lily if the valley] Iberis [perennial candytuft] white foxgloves, Jap. anemones etc. Most of those will also take some sun quite happily too if the soil doesn't dry out completely. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Thanks @Fairygirl

    Dicentra are in Wilko now so I may grab some.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Just check it is white though - most are pink @TheGreenMan :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    Dicentra can get really quite big - just a  heads up. Mine grew over a metre tall. I wasn't expecting that.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Fire said:
    If you can stomach some white, then Thalicthrum Splendide would be my top recommendation. There is a yellow Thal which you could risk. I understand it likes a lot of sun.

    Adding in organic material will make them happy.
    I've seen yellow Thalictrum flavum growing in dry, dappled shade so would be inclined to give it a go.

    Aquilegia chrysantha is very nice, taller and airier than the usual Aquilegias:

    See the source image

    Kirengeshoma is worth considering but it does start to look a bit sickly if the soil is too dry.

    Disporum 'Green Giant' has nice greeny yellow bell-shaped flowers in spring:

    See the source image

    If we're including white, definitely plant Eurybia divaricata, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. For more height, Doellingeria umbellata might be worth a go.

    I've found Selinum wallichianum grows well in fairly dry conditions with me, about 12" of topsoil over rubble in the shade of a fence. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Fairygirl said:
    Just check it is white though - most are pink @TheGreenMan :)

    Oh it's definitely white.  I was looking at them last week :)
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Fire said:
    Dicentra can get really quite big - just a  heads up. Mine grew over a metre tall. I wasn't expecting that.

    I don't mind height.  I've got the rowan and mahonia in that area
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Fairygirl said:
    Just check it is white though - most are pink @TheGreenMan :)

    Oh it's definitely white.  I was looking at them last week :)
    Smashing  :)
    Great plants, and ideal for underplanting with early stuff- bulbs etc. They aren't fully furnished out until May here - probably not much earlier where you are, even in milder winters/springs. Add in some later flowering verticals and it gives a good opportunity to have a nice little environment in a square yard or so.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Loxley said:
    Fire said:
    If you can stomach some white, then Thalicthrum Splendide would be my top recommendation. There is a yellow Thal which you could risk. I understand it likes a lot of sun.

    Adding in organic material will make them happy.
    I've seen yellow Thalictrum flavum growing in dry, dappled shade so would be inclined to give it a go.

    Aquilegia chrysantha is very nice, taller and airier than the usual Aquilegias:

    See the source image

    Kirengeshoma is worth considering but it does start to look a bit sickly if the soil is too dry.

    Disporum 'Green Giant' has nice greeny yellow bell-shaped flowers in spring:

    See the source image

    If we're including white, definitely plant Eurybia divaricata, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. For more height, Doellingeria umbellata might be worth a go.

    I've found Selinum wallichianum grows well in fairly dry conditions with me, about 12" of topsoil over rubble in the shade of a fence. 

    Thanks @loxley

    The Disporum is very nice
  • Red TulipRed Tulip Posts: 24
    I grow stylophorum lasiocarpum in quite dense shade and poor soil along with ferns, it seeds around but only gently
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