junkyardcat wrote:

I want to plant more flowers, and I have a shaded area at the front of my
property that could really use some color. Are there any tall flowers out
there that thrive in the shade? Do Cannas only do well in full sun? Even
flowering hedges would do if they're nice and colorful Any suggestions?

Cannas only in sun.

You don't say your zone.In my usda zone 8, the following applies:

For a hedge in deep shade, Japanese Aucuba would be lovely. The flowers
are too small to notice, bukt the leaves are spotted green & yellow so
quite dramatic, & if you have both male & female plants, you'll end up
with long-lasting bright red berries bigger than the end of your grampa's
thumb. These can become large bushy shrubs -- they just love the shade.

Shade flowers tall or taller:

Greater Solomon's Seal is three feet tall, loves shade, nifty foliage &
dangly white flowers in pairs.

Some varieties of uphright mahonias get five, six, even ten feet tall, big
yellow flowers, which become tasty berries in autumn. They do great in a
sizeable proportion of shade.

Some Himilayan jack-in-the-pulpit varieties have leaves & flowers three or
four feet tall, & such remarkable leaves & flowers at that. They like the
bright edge of shade.

Some varieties of columbine are quite tall, & do great in dappled shade.

Astrantia or Millwort can get four or five feet tall, loves dappled shade.

Monkshoods vary from two feet to seven feet depending on kind, they're the
delphiniums of the shade corridor, but to my thinking way nicer than
delphiniums.

Various Snakeroots need very moist soil in shade, will get six feet tall
with big foxtail flowers.

Dicentris spectibalis (I'm mispelling that but don't want to look things
up), i.e., the bigger Bleeding Heart, huge flourishes of pink or white
heart-locket flowers in deep to moderate shade.

Disporum species, "Fairy Bells," dangling bell-flowers yellow or white,
the lilies of the shade corridors.

Globeflowers. Short foliage, but bright yellow flowers raise to four or
five feet in the air; bright edge of shade garden.

Lobelias. Many kinds, some are quite tall, moist shade.

Ligularia. Many kinds, most in the four feet range, tall foxtail flowers,
& fascinating foliage, bloom spectacularly even in deep shade.

Lunaria money plant. Big white flowers; one variety has variegated leaves;
four or five feet tall; seeds like paper-window silver dollars. Biennial
but almost guaranteed to self-seed & persist beyond that second year.

Many more things, that's just what comes to mind from my own shade gardens.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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