25 SHADE-TOLERANT SHRUBS FOR THE GARDEN, PERENNIAL AND UNPRETENTIOUS

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To create a seasoned style, gardeners often plant shrubs that can withstand shade near the arbor and in other shady areas. They decorate the corners of the garden, they only have a few hours of low light per day.

What are shade-tolerant shrubs for?

Plants that do well without bright sunlight fill shaded areas in the garden, many of them fruit and berry. For landscape design, decorative-deciduous and shade-growing shrubs are planted. Lush flowering perennial create hedges, paths, arches, they adorn the walls of houses, alleys, squares, arbors, many exude a pleasant aroma, disposing to rest.

Also read: Ornamental shrubs for the garden.

Fruit shrubs for shady corners of a site

Fruits are grown as a decoration for the garden and to obtain a tasty and healthy crop.

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Barberry is an evergreen or deciduous plant up to 2 m. The leaf plates collected in bunches are small, leathery. Flowers form brushes on the side shoots. Berries appear in the middle of summer. They contain useful substances, vitamins. Used in cooking and medicine.
Hazel (hazel) is a shrub of the Birch family. Known as hazelnuts. The leaves are wide, oval. The flowers are light green, similar to earrings. The fruits ripen in early autumn.
Viburnum - hedges of any height and shape are made from the plant. She tolerates the shadow, but then the berries do not ripen. The bark of a young shrub is smooth, then turns gray. The leaves are large, up to 10 cm, pubescent from below. On the eve of leaf fall, the plant turns red. Flowers are decorative, white. Berries with a high content of vitamins have a healing effect.
Gooseberries - berry shrubs up to 2 m tall with a lignified stem and scales. It blooms in May, begins to bear fruit in August, contains many vitamins, minerals, it is consumed fresh and harvested for the winter.
Rosehip - deciduous shrub, has erect or creeping stems, covered with thin spikes, likes partial shade, grows to 1.5 m and above. The flowers are white, pink, orange-red berries, medicinal.

Shade-tolerant flowering shrubs

Flowering perennials tolerate shading and bloom profusely regardless of lighting.

Title	Description and Features
Rhododendron	The plant is between 0.5 and 2 m high. It tolerates frosts and temperature changes. Lush flowers form racemose or corymbose inflorescences. The palette is white, orange, red, purple.
Garden jasmine	Winter-hardy, rarely sick. It blooms with large snow-white or yellow flowers, exuding a pleasant aroma.
Wisteria	High tree-like liana up to 18 m, legumes. Leaves are pinnate, arranged alternately. Inflorescences-brushes up to 30-50 cm, bloom in spring with fragrant flowers with purple, lilac color.
Lilac	It has erect or spreading trunks up to 7 m. The leaves are opposite, simple, oval, cirrus, dissected. Inflorescences are racemose, paniculate. It blooms in purple, pink, white and exudes a pleasant smell. He loves the sun, but also grows in partial shade.
Weigela	Erect shrub without lateral shoots. Petiole leaves, opposite, dentate. Flowers in the form of a bell or funnel, cream, red, yellow. Located under the crowns of trees, loves moisture.
Action	It grows up to 2 m, shade-tolerant. She has white, purple, purple flowers.
Elder	2-6 cm high. The stems are branched, the leaves are large, unpaired, blooms in light yellow.
Hydrangea	Shrubs and trees up to 2 m, blooms all summer. Spherical inflorescences bloom white, blue, pink.
Honeysuckle	Tatar, alpine, edible grow in the shade.
Kerria Japanese	Spring-flowering, lush, has thin, long shoots. Leaves lanceolate with serrated margin. The flowers are bright yellow.
Snowberry	Likes partial shade, unpretentious, blooms in summer with small flowers, similar to bells.
Kalinolisty	Carries the shadow, small flowers of its small, white, pink palette.
Yew	Coniferous perennial, growing slowly. There are ground cover and tall varieties, preferring shade.

Shade-tolerant deciduous plants

Unpretentious shrubs grow well in the shade of trees, houses, farm buildings, very popular for decorating the garden.

Title	Description and Features
Wild grapes (maiden five-leafed)	Liana up to 15 m long, loves a moderate shadow, adorns the walls.
Privet	Reaches 2-4 m, densely branched, resistant to atmospheric pollution, drought, does not tolerate frost.
Juniper	Ornamental coniferous shrub, is tall and stunted. Not very picky about the soil, grows in the sun and partial shade.
Boxwood	Evergreen shade-loving shrub from 2-12 m, direct sunlight spoils its appearance. The leaves are rounded, opposite, glossy, fragrant flowers.
Euonymus	Ornamental shrubs or trees are especially beautiful in the fall. There are creeping and spreading species. Shoots with a round, tetrahedral cross-section, decorated with growths. Leaves are smooth, shiny.
Microbiota cross-pair	Evergreen, coniferous. Has creeping, soft to the touch and flexible branches, grows in the shade. The needles are green, brown in autumn.
Barberry of Thunberg	Bright red, purple arched branches. The foliage in the form of a rhombus, oval, circle, pointed, in the autumn changes color to carmine-violet. It blooms in May with yellow, red flowers.