What Is Dappled Shade?
Dappled Shade Refers to Areas Where There Is a Mixture of Sun and Shade, Generally Because a Deciduous Tree Is Nearby. Plants in This Category Are Often...
Dappled shade refers to areas where there is a mixture of sun and shade, generally because a deciduous tree is nearby. Plants in this category are often woodland plants and will do best with almost no direct sun (even morning or late afternoon sun).
What's dappled shade?
Dappled shade: Mainly reflected or diffused light, for example through fairly open tree canopies all day. Dappled shade can approximate to light or open shade where sunlight filters through especially lightly branched and leaved deciduous trees such as silver birch.
What grows in dappled shade?
- Soapwort (Saponaria)
- Golden Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha)
- Little Treasure Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha v. ...
- Coral Bells (Heuchera)
- Western Wood Lily (Lilium philadelphicum)
- Bluebells (Campanula)
- Siskiyou Blue Festuca Grass (Festuca)
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