White Flowering Plants
Sometimes the dark areas around houses can look depressing and miserable: where the black dog lives.
I always like to cheer up these areas. Obviously soft plants like maidenhair ferns and club mosses can do a lot, but have you ever thought of white flowering plants?
White flowering plants (or even variegated-leaved plants like lamium) really lift dark areas.
White impatiens, erigeron daisies, white hellebores, variegated-leaved hostas, white flowering fuchsias, pieris, white hydrangeas, etc.
Most shade-loving or shade-tolerant plants are sold in the shade-house areas of nurseries – but in general, nursery staff can advise customers about which plants grow in the shade.
So why not cheer up your dark, dingy areas of the garden.
Hooroo!