Here’s a list of the best shade-loving flowers for containers that you can grow easily to add a colorful appeal to less bright spaces!
Do not let the lack of sun and small space stop you from growing colorful flowers. Even if you don’t have a sunlit garden, you can still add pinks and blues to your place by growing these Shade Loving Flowers for Containers!
Best Shade Flowers for Containers
Though these flowers are shade-loving, a space with partial sunlight is most suitable for many of them.
1. Impatiens
Botanical Name: Impatiens
Impatiens offer an array of colorful blooms and flourish in full shade. A location where they get bright morning sun and shade for the rest of the day is excellent. Here’s how to grow!
2. Astilbe
Botanical Name: Astilbe chinensis
Add a colorful appeal to your shade gardens with red, pink, and white blooms of Astilbe with contrasting green leaves in pots. It also attracts butterflies and beneficial insects.
3. Foam Flower
Botanical Name: Tiarella
This beautiful perennial offers clusters of white blooms on a single stem and does well in the shade. Grow this flowering plant in decorative pots for an attractive look.
4. Caribbean Copper Plant
Botanical Name: Euphorbia cotinifolia
The colorful foliage with matching little flowers in white-cream hue on pale yellow bracts look adorable in a pot when planted in the shaded spots of gardens all year round. Here are more like it!
5. Amethyst Flower
Botanical Name: Browallia speciosa
This annual plant shows off pretty white, purple, blue blossoms that flourish well in shaded to partially shady locations. Varieties like Starlight Series offer compact plants, and Troll Series feature dense plants ideal for containers.
6. Fuchsia
Botanical Name: Fuchsia
Fuchsia displays multicolored flowers in a number of varieties that are vining and trailing. Grow this flowering plant in dappled light, as it can not tolerate heat. Here’s how to grow it indoors!
7. Bush Lily
Botanical Name: Clivia miniata
Clivia is an evergreen plant and offers large clumps of funnel-shaped orange blooms with clusters of green, strap-like foliage. It favors dappled shade and indirect light; protection from direct sunlight helps it grow.
8. Wishbone Flower
Botanical Name: Torenia fournieri
The delicate multi and bicolor blooms appear in late spring to early summer. It is a perfect choice for containers in an area with morning sun and afternoon shade.
9. Flowering Tobacco
Botanical Name: Nicotiana altata
The colorful, ornamental star-shaped blooms look adorable in the pot, plus they smell so good in the evening. Grow them in partial shade in rich, moist soil.
10. Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia semperflorens
The colorful begonia flowers with contrasting foliage look adorable in containers. You can grow varieties like Boliviensis Begonia, Reiger Begonia, Big Red Bronze Leaf, Ambassador White, and Super Cascade, which do well in shade or partial shade, even indoors.
11. Silver Falls
Botanical Name: Dichondra argentea ‘Silver Falls’
This creeping perennial is grown as a spiller in containers. It grows well in partial shade and produces red blooms over green or silver leaves.
12. Lobelia
Botanical Name: Lobelia
The purple, white, or blue flowers fall over the rims of containers–it prefers partial shade and flowers best before nighttime temperatures become too warm.
13. Sweet Alyssum
Botanical Name: Lobularia maritima
The sweet flowers of this low-growing annual flourish in partial sun. Plant it in upright containers or hanging baskets.
14. Bacopa
Botanical Name: Bacopa monnieri
Small pink, white, or blue flowers cascade along with this plant from spring to fall. Combine it with other annuals for attractive scenery in containers or window boxes.
15. Pansy
Botanical Name: Viola
Pansies are a great choice for containers, and you can grow them in full sun to partial shade. They require a cool temperature to flourish and continue to flower longer if grown in partial shade. Here’s what they mean!
16. Cineraria
Botanical Name: Pericallis × hybrida
Grow this tender perennial in shady areas or in pots under a patio that receives dappled light. Use slightly acidic, moist soil with good drainage.
17. Hydrangea
Botanical Name: Hydrangea
Coming in a vast array of shades and colors, hydrangeas are one of the best flowers to grow in pots. They do well in dappled light and look stunning! Learn how to grow them in pots here!
18. Primrose
Botanical Name: Primula vulgaris
Coming in an array of colors, primrose is the plant to have for the shaded spot that gets 2-3 hours of sun per day. Use rich, well-draining, and slightly acid soil for best growth.
19. Bergenia
Botanical Name: Bergenia cordifolia ‘Miss Piggy’
Large green leaves and contrasting pink flowers are what make this plant variety so special! Place it at a spot that gets 2-3 hours of sunlight, and watch it grow in all its glory.
20. Phlox
Botanical Name: Phlox
Phlox come in a variety of shades and you will never have a problem picking your favorite one out! The flowers come in clusters and are sweetly fragrant.
21. Snowflake Bush
Botanical Name: Euphorbia leucocephala
The lovely snowflake bush has a show of white bracts, earning it the name. It tolerates partial shade and thrives in well-drained soil. Be careful–this Euphorbia variety produces a milky sap that can be a skin irritant.
Well, which of these are you most excited to grow? Do let us know in the comments below!
