{"id":10214,"date":"2018-03-14T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=10214"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:10:34","slug":"jazz-up-shady-garden-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2018\/03\/14\/jazz-up-shady-garden-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Up Shady Garden Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dicentra ‘GoldHeart’<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hosta ‘Golden Scepter’<\/p><\/div>\n

From brilliant green to rich gold hues, fabulous foliage and flowers can wake up any dark or colorless, shade area. See below a list of great plants that\u00a0wake up a\u00a0blah area of your shade garden. Plant list is suitable for gardens in plant hardiness zones 5-8. Exciting colorful and\/or tropical-like foliage or showy flowers.<\/p>\n

Hostas, coral bells and liriopes are the first plants that gardeners think of and there are many cultivars to select from. A number of gold colored plants such as variegated liriope, \u2018Sun King\u2019 aralia, and many gold and variegated leaf hostas. Some variegated shrubs include\u00a0\u2018Brigadoon\u2019 St. John\u2019s wort,\u00a0boxwood (Buxus<\/em>), ‘Girard’s Rainbow’ doghobble (Leucothoe<\/em>), and variegated forms of euonymus. They add a splash of foliage color, provided that they receive a minimum of\u00a0 2-3 hours of dappled sunlight.<\/p>\n

Plant suggestions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n