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Expert-Approved Shade-Loving Southern Living Plant Combos for Your Garden

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  2. Expert-Approved Shade-Loving Southern Living Plant Combos for Your Garden
  • By Jim Putnam
  • May 16, 2020

Adore your trees, but have difficulty finding plants that love basking in their shade? These sensational plant combinations for shade are recommended by HortTube’s Jim Putnam. They’re sure to make your garden sing!

These Southern plants are hardy in a variety of USDA Zones but they share one plant characteristic — they like shade to part shade garden exposure. Shade plants don’t have to be boring, either. You’ll love ‘Soft Caress’ Mahonia‘s yellow winter blooms and EverColor ‘Everillo’ Carex‘s stunning lime green grass-like leaves. Don’t forget that Southern favorite – camellias — with blooms all fall and winter.

 

Jim Putnam

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Plants Featured In The article

Camellia
Large, formal, pink Camellia blooms of Early Wonder Camellia

Early Wonder® Camellia

Camellia japonica ‘Early Autumn’
Hydrangea
Heaps of blue to lavender Southern Living Hydrangea bloom heads

Dear Dolores® Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Wyatt LeFever’
Carex - EverColor® Series

Carex EverColor® 'Everillo'

Carex oshimensis PP21002
Mahonia

‘Soft Caress’ Mahonia

Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ PP20183

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