Spring Shade Garden Plan with Cowslip Fill your spring shade garden with cowslip, coral bells and bleeding heart! Enjoy spring blooms in shade with cowslip
If you're looking for more spring color, this garden plan is just the ticket. Deep purple foliage of coral bells contrast with cowslip’s lemon-yellow blooms and bleeding heart’s delicate flowers and foliage in spring. Later, ostrich fern fronds unfurl to paint a backdrop of green. As cowslip and bleeding-heart fade away by summer, the garden remains vibrant with foliage texture into autumn.
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A) Old-fashioned bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)
Perennial; heart-shaped pink flowers with white inner petals from early to midspring; full to part shade; 24 to 36 in. tall, 18 to 30 in. wide; cold hardy in USDA zones 3 to 9
B) Coral bells (Heuchera ‘Shanghai’)
Perennial; small, bell-shaped white