How to make your garden bloom

The West's best flowers for borders, beds, bouquets, and containers

Colorful plants for shade gardens

Plant some of these beauties for great garden color, even in shade

Astilbe
Photo by Susan A. Roth

What to plant in the shade: Astilbe hybrids

Feathery, plumelike flowers have an airy quality; they come in shades of pink, salmon, lavender, red, and white above fernlike foliage.

A mainstay of shaded perennial borders, they’re also great beside garden pools, along shaded paths, and in pots. Give them moist, rich soil.

Zones 1–7, 14–17; short-lived in 8, 9, 14–24.

More: Astilbe in the Sunset Plant Finder

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