Great Trailing Plants For Shade

Trailing Pothos Botanical Name.

Trailing plants for shade. A very compact grower it suits sun or light shade and is extra handy as an edging plant for large pots. You will love the purple flowers on this choice. Erinus is commonly known as edging lobelia and the pendula variation puts out long cascading shoots that are ideal in hanging baskets and pots.

While it is a perennial in. Hosta is an obvious choice in picking the best perennials for shade as long as you can appreciate what foliage plants bring to your landscaping. Another winner in hanging baskets trailing bacopa boasts hundreds of tiny blooms long into the fall when others have stopped blooming.

Most coleus plants like shade and work well indoors. Campanula poscharskyana Stella This splendid but sometimes uncomfortably vigorous trailing plant brings vivid bright violet-blue flowers with white eyes to sunny positions over low walls happily inserting itself into crevices as well as trailing over the edge. Creeping Jenny- Also mentioned above Creeping Jenny works well in shade especially as a filler between pavers in shady areas.

It sprouts a green flower in the summer. Torenia is often called the wishbone plant and it will grow from zones 2 to 11. Narrow leaves often tinged in bronze are found on this plant.

The variegated String of Hearts boasts light green leaves with cream colored edging. One type of hosta recommended to dress up a shady spot is Halcyon hosta. It has a trailing habit so looks great in a hanging planter or on a shelf.

Dichondra Silver Falls- Though already mentioned above the silver falls also works well in part shade. The two-lipped tubular trumpet-shaped flowers usually have light violet and a royal violet on the same bloom. Here are some of the best pothos to grow indoors.