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Creekside Nursery
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Shade-Tolerant Shrubs – Creekside Nursery, Inc
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What are the best fast growing shrubs/small trees to provide shade?
Elderberry. The ones at the Miyawaki Method forest in Griffith Park were 19' tall in a couple years. You may want to plant a thicket rather than spaced out trees, that's a good part of the reason the forest has so much height in a short time. My 3 year old 10' tall toyon casts enough shade you are shaded if you move every 5 minutes. I pinched the side shoots so it went up rather than out plus the mama tree was meant to be a shrub that has turned into quite a good sized tree so genetics. I wish I knew when the older toyon in the backyard was planted but it was squeezed between 2 older trees and cut back by half in 2022 and now it's cool underneath all day long. Great shade. Catalina Cherry and Ironwood are supposed to be speedy trees. More on reddit.com
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Fast growing trees/shrubs for shade to sit under?
Native cherry, Buckeye. More on reddit.com
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A good screening shrub that will grow in partial shade?
Doesn’t meet any of your preferences, but huckleberry is evergreen and actually grows better in shade More on reddit.com
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Looking for shade tolerant hedge ideas
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Reddit
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r/portlandgardeners on Reddit: Please recommend tall (or fast growing) shade-tolerant shrubs!
June 5, 2023 -

My neighbors just put a trampoline right next to our shared fence! Every time I step outside the kids are staring right into my backyard from atop the trampoline 💀 I have a couple trees overhead that cause the ground to be generally shady but maybe with occasional sun throughout the day. Please recommend some shrubbery that I could plant next to my fence, which would tolerate such lighting conditions and ideally grow to a minimum of 8 feet in height!

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Garden Design
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17 Fast-Growing Shrubs for Your Garden
February 20, 2025 - Fast-growing varieties include ‘Coral Beauty’ (pictured) and bearberry cotoneaster. Plant a hedge along a driveway or pathway, or use a ground cover type to cover a slope or bank. (Some species are known to be invasive in some areas.) Black Lace® elderberry (Sambucus nigra). Photo: Proven Winners. Zones: 3-9 Exposure: Full sun to partial shade Habit: Upright bushy habit Height/Spread: 3 to 30 feet tall and wide Growth rate: Elderberry shrubs can reach their full mature size in 1 to 3 years Bloom time: Spring to summer
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The Spruce
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30 Best Shrubs for Shade in Your Yard
April 1, 2025 - For partial shade, choose Arrowhead Viburnum, (Viburnum dentatum), and for deep shade, a Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium). Viburnums are moderate- to fast-growing plants.
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Proven Winners
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Shrubs for Shady Spots - Proven Winners ColorChoice Flowering Shrubs
February 8, 2024 - NewGen Freedom boxwood, in particular, is ideal for its rapid growth. It fills garden space quickly and, thus, responds nicely to trimming. If you like the look of a continuous hedge or a precisely cut animal, try this flexible shrub.
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Martha Stewart
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15 Fast-Growing Shade Plants That Thrive With Little to No Sun
April 16, 2025 - "The flower buds open from pink to clear blue and will last for several weeks before going completely dormant," says Roethling. ... Foam flower (Tiarella cordifolia) is a fast-growing, shade-loving plant with long-lasting blooms.
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Arbor Day Foundation
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Fast-Growing Shrubs - Arbor Day Foundation
You're in Hardiness Zone 7 based on your postal code 20147. Shopping for a different location? ... drought tolerant evergreen fast growing gift ideas give a tree give a tree cards greeting cards holiday card memorial pollinator friendly privacy recycled materials shade sympathy trees in memory
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HGTV
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15 Favorite Shrubs for Shade Gardens
June 5, 2024 - Keep them watered during the first year after planting. They’re hardy in Zones 5b to 9. More on Oakleaf Hydrangeas ... Mountain laurel is a go-to favorite when it comes to shrubs that thrive in shady conditions. This native shrub grows as an understory plant in forests east of the Mississippi ...
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Monrovia
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Best high-impact, fast-growing shrubs in all zones | Be Inspired
July 31, 2025 - A handsome shrub that is pest- and disease-resistant and perfect for a quick hedge or privacy screen. Low-maintenance, dense, and upright, with lustrous burgundy-red new foliage. Perfect for southern gardens. Quickly reaches 10' tall, 7' wide. Zones 7–11. A gorgeous fast-growing shrub with huge clusters of rich purple flowers.
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Petitti Garden Centers
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8 Perfect Evergreen Shrubs for Shade | Petitti Garden Centers
May 13, 2025 - Our gardening experts have compiled a list of 8 perfect evergreens for providing year-round interest in the shade! Arborvitaes are one of the most common – and versatile – evergreens we grow. These soft-needled evergreens can be grown in sun or shade and they come in various hues of green and yellow.
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Better Homes & Gardens
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22 Best Shrubs for Shade That Thrive Without Much Sun
April 9, 2025 - This list of shade-loving shrubs contains lots of flowering, native, evergreen, or low-maintenance options sure to brighten up those hard-to-fill areas with limited sun. ... Abelia is an easy-to-grow flowering shrub ideal for foundation beds and mixed shrub borders.
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North Haven Gardens
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Best Shrubs for Shade in North Texas
April 3, 2025 - There are variegated varieties that bring welcome color to shade gardens. Best in moist, well‐drained soil, but drought tolerant when established. Podocarpus macrophyllus ‐ Evergreen. Sometimes referred to as ‘Japanese Yew’. Attractive lawn or patio tree. Pyramidal form takes to shearing well to become an effective accent, screen or clipped hedge. Will also thrive in tubs or as a topiary. Slow grower kept to 15‐20 feet tall, 6‐8 feet wide or smaller when trimmed, larger with age.
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Nature Hills
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Shrubs for Shade! Garden Blog at NatureHills.com
June 24, 2022 - Find your Growing Zone! ... Brighten those shady spots in the landscape with a flowering shrub or the steady verdant hue of evergreens! Available in large, medium, and small sizes, shade-loving shrubs come in a wide array of flower colors, leaf textures, and forms to bring new life to dark corners of your garden.
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Lichtenfelt's
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Top 5 Foundation Shrubs for Shade – Lichtenfelt's
Gardenias are made for shade, with fragrant white flowers that emerge in late spring and glossy evergreen foliage.
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UMN Extension
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Gardening in the shade | UMN Extension
Start with robust bedding plants from your local nursery or garden center. Don’t bother direct seeding shade annuals as our season is too short for most to ever bloom well. Get creative! Combine annuals, bulbs, grasses, small shrubs and perennials in containers.
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BrighterBlooms
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Shade Loving Shrubs for Sale | BrighterBlooms.com
November 13, 2025 - For a great groundcover or low shrub to create a layered effect with other, taller shrubs, ‘Dwarf Radicans’ Gardenia is a perfect choice. With spectacular double, fragrant blooms and a low, spreading growth habit, it’s ideal to use as a border, as a single specimen, or as a container planting for patios.
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Smithsonian Gardens
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Top 20 Native Shrubs for Sun and Shade - Smithsonian Gardens
July 19, 2023 - Chokeberries, also known as Aronia, are multi-stemmed shrubs with white flowers, red or black glossy berries, and great red fall color. It is a tough, dependable plant with three-season interest, especially in shady, wet sites. It works well in a naturalized landscape or garden. Chokecherry is also known as Prunus virginiana and is one of our native cherry trees. It’s great for bees and is a larval host for loads of butterfly and moth species. It has white flowers and grows up to 30 feet.