| I want some ideas about growing vegetables and flowers in a 95% shaded area with sunlight just filtering through the trees. I am in the San Jose area in California. Thank you for your response. |
| The following is a list of partial shade-tolerant vegetables. While productions may be greater in the sun, these plants will produce an edible crop when grown in a shady location. However, remember that nothing will grow in complete shade. Plants will need some morning, evening or filtered sun; a total of two to six hours of direct sun is the minimum. Arugala Beans Beets Broccoli Brussel sprouts Cauliflower Celery Cress Endive Garlic Kale Kohlrabi Leaf Lettuce Leeks Lovage Parsley Parsnips Peas Potatoes Pumpkins Radish Rhubarb Rutabagas Salad Burnet Summer Squash Salsify Turnips Shade Plants -- Perennials Acorus (Sweet Flag) Alliums Anemone Aquilegia (Columbine) Astilbe Begonia Brunnera (Bugloss) Caladium Cypripedium (Lady's Slipper Orchid) Dicentra (Bleeding Heart) Digitalis (Foxglove) Gentiana (Gentian) Geranium (True geranium) Helleborus (Winter rose) Hemerocallis Hepatica (Liverwort) Heuchera (Coralbells) Hosta (Plantain lily) Iberis (Evergreen candytuft) Iris Ligularia Lunaria (Moneyplant) Lysichiton (Skunk Cabbage) Mertensia (Virginia Bluebells) Monarda (Beebalm) Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder) Polygonatum (Solomon's Seal) Primula (Primrose) Sanguinaria (Bloodroot) Thalictrum (False Solomon's Seal) Tradescantia (Flower-of-the-Day) Trillium Trollius (Globe Flowers) Best wishes with your garden! |
