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Perennials are characterized by diversity. Planted out in the garden or cultivated in a bucket on the balcony or terrace, they can be found in any location, from full sun to dark shade. Since, depending on the type and variety, they require a wide variety of lighting conditions for their optimal development, there are also special breeds for the penumbra. And of course there are also easy-care specimens.

Perennials for the penumbra

Perennials for the partial shade, often also called shade perennials, are suitable for various partially shaded locations. In general, the following areas in the garden can be distinguished for shade perennials:

  • wood edge
  • bed
  • rockeries
  • open space

Most of the shade perennials are ideal for the edge of the wood, because the trees do not take away the necessary light from the plants. Therefore, depending on the growth height, they can also be used as underplanting. In the bed, like perennials for sunny places, they are often a real eye-catcher and bring color to the penumbra. These perennials only tolerate full shade to a limited extent, because there are special types and varieties for shade.

tip: Check the lighting requirements carefully when purchasing. Because shade perennials are often offered indiscriminately for half and shade places

Perennials for the edge of the wood

From A - C

anemones

Autumn Anemone

  • Synonym: Chinese Autumn Anemone, China Autumn Anemone
  • botanical name: Anemone hupehensis
  • Varieties for the penumbra: "Overtüre", "Praecox", "September Charme"
  • Growth height: 50 - 110 centimeters
  • Flower: medium-sized, simple, cupped, pale pink - light violet-pink
  • Flowering period: July - October
  • Leaves: deep green, ovate, finely hairy
  • Special features: deciduous, conditionally hardy to hardy, friendly to bees
Autumn Anemone, Anemone hupehensis

Japan anemone

  • Synonym: Japan Autumn Anemone, Japanese Autumn Anemone
  • botanical name: Anemone japonica
  • Varieties for partial shade: "Bressingham Glow", "Queen Charlotte", "Margarete", "Wild Swan", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Whirlwind"
  • Growth height: 50 - 100 centimeters
  • Flower: medium-large, single or semi-double; cupped; white, pale pink to dark pink
  • Flowering period: June - October
  • Leaves: deep green, heart-shaped, roughly serrated leaf margin, finely hairy
  • Special features: deciduous, bee-friendly, suitable for cutting (depending on the variety)
Autumn anemone, Anemone japonica

Bastard Foam Blossom

  • botanical name: Heucherella tiarelloides
  • Varieties for partial shade: "Infinity", "Viking Ship"
  • Growth height: 40 - 60 or 10 - 30 centimeters
  • flower: small; simple; grape-like; creamy white or pink
  • Flowering period: June - July or May - July
  • Leaves: rounded, finely hairy; brown with a reddish shimmer or green-silver
  • Special features: evergreen, easy to care for, hardy

Bergenia

  • Synonym: winding root
  • botanical name: Bergenia cordifolia
  • Strains for the penumbra: "Bach", "David", "Eroica", "Bell Tower", "Red Sister", "Snow Queen", "Silver Light", "Early Spring"
  • Growth height: 25 - 50 centimeters
  • flower: medium-sized; simple; umbellate; white-pink, soft pink, crimson-pink, red, crimson, or violet-purple
  • Flowering period: April - June
  • leaves: green - dark green; oval; entire; finely serrated
  • Special features: evergreen, some with reddish autumn colors; bee friendly
Autumn bloom, Bergenia cordifolia

Christmas Rose "Christmas Carol"

  • Synonym: snow rose, black hellebore
  • Botanical name: Helleborus niger "Christmas Carol"
  • Growth height: 10 - 20 centimeters
  • Flower: small, simple, cupped, white with a yellowish-green center
  • Flowering period: January - March
  • Leaves: green, palmate, serrate leaf margin
  • Special features: winter green, easy to care for, bee-friendly, subtle fragrance

From F - G

hosts

  • Synonym: sweetheart lilies
  • Botanical Name: Hosta

Hosta x cultorum

  • Varieties for partial shade: "Cherry Berry", "Clifford's Forest Five", "Dress Blues", "Ground Master", "Gypsy Rose", "Liberty", "Regal Splendor", "Shade Fanfare", "Winter Snow"
  • Growth height: 30 - 120 centimeters
  • Flower: small - medium-sized; simple; funnel-, panicle- or raceme-shaped; light violet to violet
  • Flowering period: June - October
  • Leaves: different leaf shapes depending on the variety, acuminate, entire; Foliage color from yellow, green, gray-green, dark green, sometimes two-tone
  • Special features: deciduous, decorative foliage perennial
  • Perennials that are particularly easy to care for: "Dress Blue", "Gypsy Rose", "Liberty", "Shade Fanfare"

Hosta x fortunei

  • Varieties for the penumbra: "Gold Standard", "Hyacinthina", "Morning Light", "Orions Belt", "Patriot", "Striptease", "Twilight"
  • Growth height: 25 - 80 centimeters
  • Flower: small - medium-sized; simple; bell- or grape-shaped; light to dark violet
  • Flowering period: June - August
  • Leaves: heart-shaped, pointed, entire; Foliage color from yellow, green, gray-green, dark green, sometimes two-tone
  • Special features: deciduous, decorative foliage perennial
  • particularly easy-care perennials: "Hyacinthina", "Morning Light", "Striptease"
Yellow-green hosta 'Gold Standard', Hosta fortunei

flame flower

  • Botanical name: phlox
  • Varieties for the penumbra: forest phlox, phlox "White Perfume"
  • Growth height: 25 - 40 centimeters
  • Flowers: small, simple, umbel-shaped, white, lilac
  • Flowering period: May - June
  • Leaves: green, elliptic, rounded, entire
  • Special features: evergreen, fragrant
  • particularly easy-care perennials: forest flame flower
Phlox stolonifera

gold droplets

  • Botanical name: Chiastophyllum oppositifolium
  • Growth height: 15 - 20 centimeters
  • Flowers: medium-sized, simple, yellow, in panicles
  • Flowering period: June - July
  • Leaves: green with yellow margin, elliptic, crenate leaf margin
  • Special features: evergreen, easy to care for, hardy, ground cover

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Caucasus forget-me-not

  • Botanical name: Brunnera macrophylla
  • Varieties: "Mr Morse", "Silver Wings"
  • Growth height: 30 - 50 centimeters
  • Flower: small - medium-sized, simple, in panicles, white or blue
  • Flowering period: May - June or April - July
  • Leaves: Green-silvery-whitish grey, heart-shaped, entire, coarse, rough
  • Special features: beautiful mottled leaves

Lily Cluster "Moneymaker"

  • Synonym: bell grape "Moneymaker"
  • botanical name: Liriope muscari "Moneymaker"
  • Growth height: 30 - 45 centimeters
  • Flowers: paniculate, medium-sized, dark violet flower clusters
  • Flowering period: August - October
  • Leaves: Green, linear, grass-like, entire
  • Special features: decorative flowers, extremely vigorous variety, very robust, hardy, evergreen
Lily cluster, Liriope muscari

Purplebells

  • Botanical name: Heuchera
  • Varieties for partial shade: "Root Beer", "Forever Purple", "Apple Crisp", "Red Furry", "Stoplight", "Midnight Rose", "Cherry Cola"
  • Growth height: 30 - 70 centimeters
  • Flowers: medium-sized, simple, in panicles, white
  • Flowering period: July - August
  • Leaves: light green, rounded, finely hairy
  • Special features: easy to care for, frost hardy, evergreen
Purplebells

silver bells

  • Botanical name: Heuchera micrantha
  • Varieties for the penumbra: "Black Beauty", "Chocolate Ruffles", "Obsidian", "Silver Scrolis", "Venus"
  • Growth height: 15 - 60 centimeters
  • flower: small; simple; bell-shaped; white to slightly pink
  • Flowering period: July - August
  • Leaves: round or heart-shaped; notched leaf margin; silvery, black-red or red-brown
  • Special features: evergreen, decorative foliage
  • particularly easy-care perennials: "Venus"

silver candles

  • Botanical name: Cimicifuga
  • Varieties for partial shade: July silver candle "Black Negligee", lance silver candle,
  • September Silver Cohosh "Atropurpurea" and "Pink Spike"
  • Growth height: 40 - 150 centimeters
  • flower: small or large; simple; paniculate; white, creamy white or pinkish white
  • Flowering period: August - September or September - October
  • Leaves: various leaf shapes with serrated leaf margins; Foliage color from dark green to black-red
  • Specialties: deciduous, bee friendly
  • particularly easy-care perennials: "Black Negligee"
Silver candlestick, Clethra alnifolia

spars

Arend's splendor

  • botanical name: Astilbe x arendsii
  • Varieties for partial shade: "Anita Pfeifer", "Astary", "Cattleya", "Chocolate Shogun", "Else Schluck", "Feuer", "Glut", "Look at me", "White Gloria"
  • Growth height: 15 - 100 centimeters
  • Flower: medium - large; simple; paniculate; white, pink, crimson, red, crimson, or ruby
  • Flowering period: June - August
  • leaves: green - dark green; pinnate; roughly serrated leaf margin; glittering
  • Special features: deciduous, partly hardy; bee friendly, butterfly magnet
  • Perennials that are particularly easy to care for: "Anita Pfeifer", "Astary Pink", "Else Schluck", "Feuer"
Royal spars, Astilbe

Chinese spiers

  • botanical name: Astilbe chinensis
  • Varieties for the penumbra: 'Finale' spiers, 'Heart and Soul' carpet spiers, 'Crimson Lance' spears
  • Growth height: 30 - 100 centimeters
  • Flower: medium - large; simple; paniculate; pink to purplish pink
  • Flowering period: July - September
  • leaves: dark green; multipart or pinnate; serrated leaf edge; finely hairy
  • Special features: deciduous, robust with some striking flower colors
'Finale', Astilbe chinensis hybrid

Small splendor

  • botanical name: Astilbe simplicifolia
  • Varieties for the penumbra: "Aphrodite", "Praecox Alba"
  • Growth height: 40 - 50 centimeters
  • Flowers: medium-sized, simple, in panicles; white or light red (depending on the variety)
  • Flowering period: July - August
  • Leaves: Green to dark green, pinnate, roughly serrated leaf margin, smooth, shiny
  • Special features: deciduous, high humus and nutrient requirement
  • Perennials that are particularly easy to care for: "Praecox Alba"

Curled Dwarf Spire "Perkeo"

  • botanical name: Astilbe x crispa "Perkeo"
  • Growth height: 40 - 50 centimeters
  • Flowers: medium-sized, simple, in panicles, deep pink
  • Flowering period: July - August
  • Leaves: green, pinnate, curly, roughly serrate leaf margin, wavy
  • Specialities: deciduous

star umbels

  • botanical name: Astrantia
  • Varieties for partial shade: "Große Sterndolde", "Claret", "Florence", "Margery Fish", "Moulin Rouge", "Primadonna", "Venice"
  • Growth height: 40 - 70 centimeters (depending on the variety)
  • Flower: small - medium-sized; single or semi-double; umbellate; white, silvery pink, red, ruby red, deep red or crimson (depending on variety)
  • Flowering time: June - August (depending on the variety)
  • leaves: green; different leaf shapes depending on the variety
  • Special features: deciduous, high humus and nutrient requirement
  • Perennials that are particularly easy to care for: "Große Sterndolde", "Claret", "Florence", "Moulin Ruoge"
Great masterwort, Astrantia major

cranesbill

  • Synonym: geraniums
  • botanical name: geranium
  • Varieties for partial shade: "Album", "Baker's Pink", "Mayflower"
  • Growth height: 40 - 70 centimeters
  • flower: small; simple; cupped; white, soft pink or violet-blue
  • Flowering period: June - July
  • leaves: fresh to medium green; rounded, roughly serrated
  • Specialties: deciduous, gets through the winter well
  • Perennials that are particularly easy to care for: “Album”

Brown cranesbill

  • botanical name: Geranium phaeum
  • Varieties for the penumbra: "Raven", "Samobor", "Springtime"
  • Growth height: 40 - 60 centimeters
  • flower: small; simple; grape- or cup-shaped; black-purple, dark gray-purple, red-brown
  • Flowering period: May - August
  • leaves: green or yellow-green; multi-part, sawn leaf edge
  • Special features: deciduous, beautiful leaf colour

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Forest bellflower "Alba"

  • Botanical name: Campanula latifolia var. macrantha "Alba"
  • Growth height: 60 - 120 centimeters
  • Flower: medium-sized, simple, white, bell-shaped
  • Flowering period: June - July
  • Leaves: deep green, lanceolate, roughly serrate leaf margin
  • Special features: very nice long-distance effect, deciduous, bee-friendly

Dwarf heart flower

  • Botanical name: Dicentra formosa
  • Varieties for the penumbra: "Burning Hearts", "Luxuriant", Red Fountain"
  • Growth height: 20 - 30 centimeters
  • Flowers: small, simple, grape-shaped, dark red to crimson
  • Flowering period: June - August or June - October
  • Leaves: gray or light green, pinnate, soft, dull
  • Special features: long flowering period or after flowering

bedding perennials

columbine

  • Botanical name: Aquiliegia
  • Varieties for the penumbra: Aquilegia caerulea "Red Hobbit" (long-spurred columbine), Aquilegia vulgaris (short-spurred columbine)
  • Growth height: 20 - 70 centimeters
  • Flower: small - medium, simple, bell-shaped, crimson with a white center or blue-violet
  • Flowering period: April - June
  • Leaves: dark or blue-green, in three or more parts
  • Specialties: deciduous, partly fragrant
Columbine 'Maxistar', Aquilegia caerulea

finger good "Foxy"

  • Botanical name: Digitalis purpurea 'Foxy'
  • Growth height: 100 - 150 centimeters
  • Flowers: simple, medium-sized, in panicles, crimson - violet
  • Flowering period: June - August
  • Leaves: light green, oblong, finely hairy
  • Special features: evergreen, fragrant, poisonous

Asia Minor Spurge

  • Synonym: Almond Leaf Spurge
  • Botanical name: Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae
  • Growth height: 30 - 50 centimeters
  • Flowers: small, green-yellow umbelliferous flowers
  • Flowering time: May
  • Leaves: entire, tongue-shaped to spatulate, dark green
  • Special features: evergreen foliage shrub, poisonous plant sap

Bog Aster "Violetta"

  • Botanical name: Aster novae-angliae 'Violetta'
  • Growth height: 100 - 150 centimeters
  • Flower: small, simple, plate-shaped, dark violet
  • Flowering period: September - October
  • Leaves: green, pointed, hairy, rough
  • Specialties: deciduous, very bee friendly

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