What have you got in your shady pots?

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Help me out please? I need ideas to brighten up a shady spot with some flowers so ideally anything flowering now, as well as a good combo of now and in summer. Don't want to just pick up whatever's in Tesco's!

I've got pots of daffodils, some cornus stems, a couple of hellebores and some crocus in the pots in the shady corner. You could also put some bleeding heart in a pot and some euphorbia.

They will all start looking a bit tatty in a couple of weeks so you'll probably want to swap some tulips in then and then move on to summer bedding.

You could use some smaller pots with seasonal stuff like that in and have a couple of pots with variegated evergreens in - like a variegated pittisporum - they don't love shade but will tolerate it.

Or a variegated fatsia japonica....

www.gardenersworld.com/plants/container-plants-for-shade/ some good ideas here I've copied before..

Pulmonaria/lungwort is great in a shady spot and the bees love it. It's flowering now. It also spreads a little (but not invasively) and I dig up the babies and spread them around. Has nice spotty foliage as well. I also love cyclamen (hardy ones!) they're good in shade and slowly spread as well, and primroses are another good option. In summer I find campanulas and aquilegia's are my most successful shade tolerant flowers.

I have a daphne aureomarginata in a very tall pot, which flowered well in it's shady corner, just about done now. I popped a white diascia in with it last summer, which did great, and there is also a thalictrum black stocking in there, which takes over for summer.

Fuchsia are wonderful in my less sunny corners, for late summer.

Bacopa is another fantastic flowerer, they start in June and keep going until November, happy in partial shade.

Also, camelia can thrive in a large pot.

Ooh I like the Camelia. Was also thinking hellebores strange things that they are... @GardenNinjaIng yes that was also a concern as to how long some things last I guess if perennial not so much of a concern though... I do like tulips too. Thank you for all your ideas will get googling!

I agree fuchsias are good in shade, as are nasturtiums and annual lobelia, and campanula. Mentioned in that GW article is Begonia sutherlandii, which is a great plant for shade too.

Lily of the valley this year for a new shady area behind an extension.

Hellebores are a good choice - flower for months!

Begonias and busy lizzies do well in the shade.

Hellebores, cyclamen, two Acer trees, one with daffodils and cyclamen around the base of one of the trees. Lots of Grape Hyacinths too.

Acer and liriope do well in shady pots in my garden. Some hydrangeas do well in shade too, there is one in the front garden of a house on my road which is in complete shade and it does really well.

Oh, and ferns

And hostas