Flowering Bushes for Shade

Flowering bushes are a joy in every garden, as they bloom with beautiful looking flowers during the season and spread their sweet fragrance in the garden. Not just that, some of the flowering plants produce berries and some of them turn into a great looking dark foliage during the autumn. If you have some shaded areas in your garden, then here are some of the flowering bushes for shade you should consider.

Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are beautiful flowering bushes, and some of them are climbing varieties. Hydrangeas shrubs for shade have large and simple leaves, and produce large clusters of beautiful looking flower. Depending upon the cultivar and soil conditions, the flowers can be white, pink, blue, purple or red. Hydrangeas are easy to prune, like rich soil, and have vigorous growth habits. Hydrangeas require annual pruning, which is typically after the flower have died during the fall season. Pruning will help to maintain the shape of the bushes, and also help to prevent the development of long branches which can cause bending and breaking under the weight of the flower clusters.

Japanese Pieris
With Japanese pieris, or pieris japonica shrub you can bring a bright color and texture to the landscape. This bush produces clusters of pink and white flowers which smell amazing. This flowers bloom in late winter or early spring, and are of shape like the lily-of-the-valley flowers. These bushes can reach a height of 8-12 feet, and are one of the most popular ornamental flowering shrubs planted for home landscaping.

Camelia Bushes
Camelias are native to southern Asian, but are also grown in south U.S. These flowering plant for shade bloom during the cool weather, and have dark green tropical foliage. There are hundreds of types of camelias, but all of them do good in well drained soil, which is rich acidic. Certain camelias bloom during the fall season, and some, during the early winter season. Camelias come in pretty red, white, pink blooms, also there are some double blooming varieties available.

Red Chokeberry
If you don't want to spend much time gardening, but still want great looking bush, then red chokeberry is an ideal choice. This shrub requires very little maintenance, and gives pink tinged blooms during spring season, has shiny green leaves, and produces bright red berries that last for the whole winter season. Interesting, isn't it? During the autumn season the chokeberry rivals with the popular burnish bush for color, as it turns brilliant red.

Fuchsia
If you want larger flowers, then consider fuchsias flowering shrubs for shade, which come in amazing variety of colors and sizes. Fuchsias can be upright or can be planted directly in the ground, or can be left hanging. Hanging fuchsias look ideal in wine barrels or hanging pots. They give the garden a multi-leveled appeal. If you care for them properly, then they will flower throughout spring and summer.

Other Good Flowering Bushes
If you want to plant an array of different flowering bushes which grow in shade, then you can consider below listed beautiful looking flowering bushes too, along with the above flowering plants for shady areas.

• Autumn Purple Rhododendron
• Lysianthis
• Marsha Washington Geraniums
• Impatiens
• Violets
• Mountain Laurel
• Abelia
• Redosier Dogwood Shrubs
• European Elder
• Daphne Bush
• Heavenly Bamboo
• Rose-of-Sharon

These were the top 5 and other good flowering bushes that can be grown in shade. So, plant these shrubs and bushes in the right soil in your garden, and tend to them well, and enjoy amazing looking flowers when the spring comes!