Help please - experienced gardeners.

[LadyEloise1]

I have a fairly long back garden. Mainly lawn with two large beds either side.
For privacy at the back we have conifers. It is dark and shaded. I wanted to put some colour down there and put pots along the path in front of the large shrubs and tall trees.

What do you suggest I plant in the pots - annuals - that will add colour and like shade ?
The pots are approximately 30cm square.
Thanks in advance

If it’s very very shady you might struggle for colour. If not very dark, try Busy Lizzies. Slightly less shady, begonias, fuchsias, lobelia.

Thank you

Maybe also some bacopa and geraniums. You can get great colour from both.

Pale-coloured flowers, especially white ones, take on an almost luminous quality in shade. The contrast really works.

Hydrangeas do well in partial shade and planters. A couple of lovely hydrangeas that would look good are the white Annabelle and Limelight.
Under our leyllandi hedge ( owned by neighbour) I plant Crainsbill Geraniums, Honesty, and hellebores. They survive well in the dark dry. I top up the soil with the spent compost from pots.

https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/anemone--hybrida-honorine-jobert/classid.2474/

Thank you

We tried nemesias one year and they were lovely.

Heucheras will give you all year round colour too

Foxgloves (digitalis) love shade and comeback better and better each year. They come in some lovely colours.