Are there any type of colorful flowers can grow in 100% shade?

We just moved into a house and I want to plant flowers in the front in between the bushes... but it is facing away from the sun so the area is 100% shaded. If at all possible, I'd like to plant colorful flowers. Thanks for any and all advice!





Note: I'm not a fan of hostas...

FlowersBirthday FlowersSympathy FlowersBegonias, Phlox, Coleus, Impatiens, Dicentra, Fuchsia





http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/07-annual...
Reply:Impatiens


Begonia


Fuchsia
Reply:hydrangeas
Reply:How about toad Lillie's or may apples? Toad Lillie's are purple, and may apples are white. And Jack-in-the-pulpit?
Reply:Please try hardy cyclamen. I planted them about two years ago, and it blooms in spring.
Reply:Most of the plants that grow in full canopied forests are adapted to light before the leaves break so will bloom before the canopy fills in. Some of these will do quite well on the north side of buildings where they get only indirect light all day if their other growing requirements are met. Most of them will need moisture by regular watering.


Some like ephemerals, plants that go dormant during the dry season like tulips or shooting star (Dodecatheon meadia), vary widely in their light requirements. Tulips are out, as are iris, as they need full sun but shooting stars might work. Look at bleeding heart, ferns, lily of the valley. Solomon's seal or any of the Polygonatum family might work well.


Sweet woodruff blooms white and is fragrant, Vinca (periwinkle), Oxalis, and Kenilworth ivy (this is a trailing plant Cymbalaria muralis with no relation to English ivy) are possible ground covers.


I grow Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum' or variegated gout weed with oxalis and sweet woodruff under my fir trees, in sandy soil, by adding lots of compost and watering. Mixed in are trilliums, ferns, hostas, clumps of cyclamen, Jack-in-the Pulpit and mouse tails (Arisarum proboscideum), and merrybells. I live in zone 7 so summer heat is not serious, my problem is the drought during July and August every year. So ephemerals like the shooting stars, trilliums, and merrybells are great then the ground covers help keep the soil moist and cool while the ephemerals go dormant. I mulch them at the end of every winter after the rains to replace whatever is leached out.





For very early color in an ephemeral I like Ranunculus ficaria but note this is considered invasive in parts of the country. I have 'Brazen Hussey' and another cultivar with cream flowers against green and silver figured leaves. Neither have colonized beyond the immediate area I put them. Then the gout weed is supposed to be invasive also but in the shade under the trees they just do nicely.


http://www.plant-identification.co.uk/sk...


http://www.paghat.com/ranunculusficaria....
Reply:That's quite alright not being a fan of hostas, seeing as how they don't flower......





Lily of the valley


Blue bells


Bunchberry


Forget-me-nots


Shooting star


Christmas rose


Wake robin


Pansy


Impatiens


Foxgloves


Daylily


Salvia


VincaWhite Teeth