Potted plants and hanging baskets make a colorful addition to your porch and backyard deck. But these shady spots are only ideal for the foliage that will prosper in environments with little to no direct sunlight.
We’ve picked out a few brightly colored favorites, whose growth patterns and shade tolerance are ideal for containers in canopied areas.
Trailing snapdragon is fantastic for hanging baskets on your porch, allowing its lengthly vines to cascade along the edges. The trumpet-shaped flowers can be found in colors of peach, purple, red, and brilliant pink.
Gryphon begonia occasionally produces a spray of pink flowers, but it’s the leaves that make it a gardening favorite. The foliage consists of deep avocado-green leaves with lovely veins of maroon and silver.
While the magilla perilla rarely produces flowers, it offers a lovely duo of color matches on its foliage. It’s teardrop-shaped leaves are bright green with a golden center, while the mature leaves darken into a lovely deep plum with a fuschia center.
Lobelia offers your porch a splash of tiny blossoms that range from violet and periwinkle, to white and light pink. Some varieties produce bi-colored flowers as well.
New leaves tend to be bright green with a light yellow spike down the middle. Mature leaves offer a dark contrast as they turn to a deep forest green with maroon center.
Polka dot plants require no pruning and do well in partial sunlight. This makes them a great addition to porch areas whose shade coverage shifts throughout the day.
This plant offers long spikes of tube-shaped lavender flowers that will bloom all summer long. It requires minimal sunlight and does best in fully shaded areas.
With all these beautiful choices, there’s no reason not to enliven the shady spots in your outdoor living spaces with bouquet of fragrance and color. Each of these beautiful plants requires minimal care, and will happily thrive with no direct sunlight.
For more fantastic ideas about shade loving plants, keep reading!
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