Shade loving perennials

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Looking to redo my border in a North facing garden this spring. I've got 2 big ornamental grass type plants in there at the moment that have got too big and annoy me so going to dig them out but will need to fill the space.

Any recommendations to consider? I'd love something that will flower and do well in the location which is at the bottom of a stone wall.

I have astilbes which are lovely.

Also a shrub not a perennial but I have a viburnum tinus eve price which flowers and has berries.

Hydrangeas, (can get smaller ones) also Foxgloves, can get many different shades now.

Hellebores (evergreen and winter flowering), many paeonies, aquilegia, japanese anemone, lots of roses.

Technically foxgloves are biennials, even the cultivars so won't last very long.

Crocosmia grows flipping anywhere.

Crocosmia grows anywhere but it doesn’t flower well in the shade.

Tellima, Vinca, Astrantia, Heuchera

Hostas would probably be okay, iI have arum ita!icum in a similar site, also geranium Rozanne does alright in shade.

Oh yes Hostas, some of the geraniums (I mean the cranesbill sort not Pelargoniums)

Dicentra, Epimedium, Erythronium

Brunnera, epimedium, astilbe.

Thank you for the suggestions. Lots to choose from. On another note are there any climbers other than ivy that like North facing gardens to grow up a wooden picket fence? It's the end of the garden so does get some sun.

Trilliums! My mate had a whole collection in a shady corner at one house he lived at, and they were lovely.

A climbing hydrangea does well on shady north facing walls. But if it’s the sunniest bit of your garden, I’d go fo a climbing rose - look on the David Austin website for recommendations of roses that can cope with shade. Clematis and honeysuckle are other options - I have a clematis Montana that is flourishing in a shady corner ( though maybe not quite as rampant as it could be)

most of my garden is north facing & dry shade. Things that work include

• ferns - lots of them.
• climbing hydrangea
• foxgloves
• heuchera & helebore
• some camellias & sarcococca

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Trilliums! My mate had a whole collection in a shady corner at one house he lived at, and they were lovely.

They're pretty demanding and take a very very long time to get anywhere close to flowering apparently- I'll trust an RHS show medallist/ renowned nursery owner opinion on that

Tiarella. Mine flowered from march to August last year. Gorgeous, shade loving.
Astilbe
Astrantia
Geranium
Selenium wallanchanium is a lovely lacy perennial which is taller and likes shade.

Climbing wise, climbing hydrangea are gorgeous.

Thanks, @Harrysmummy246, I was thinking about planting some, but won't bother now!

The friend who had the trillium collection was a very experienced and highly qualified gardener, so he succeeded with everything he touched.

Lovely plants though.