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Creekside Nursery
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Shade-Tolerant Shrubs – Creekside Nursery, Inc
Creekside Nursery, Inc is a Proven Winners Certified Garden Center in Dallas, NC. We are both the grower and the retailer of Proven Winners annuals, while carrying a huge selection of perennials & shrubs that thrive in our Southern climate. Visit our YouTube channel 'Gardening with Creekside' ...
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Pike Nursery
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evergreen shrubs for shade flowering – Pike Nursery
3555 Koger Boulevard Suite 360 Duluth, GA 30096 · Address: 3602 Cobb Parkway Northwest Acworth, Georgia 30101
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Small shrub/evergreen recommendations for birds [mostly full shade, zone 4-5]
There’s some cultivars of winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) that I think would be good for birds. No sure if it would look as decorative as you’d want it to be but it keeps it’s berries throughout the winter. More on reddit.com
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Shade-tolerant evergreens for north facing garden bed?
Hostas might be your best friend here. Wide variety of colors and styles you could play with. More on reddit.com
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Petitti Garden Centers
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8 Perfect Evergreen Shrubs for Shade | Petitti Garden Centers
May 13, 2025 - Commonly called Canadian Hemlock, this beautiful, conical evergreen is easily identifiable by its down-swept branches and tiny cones. They are slow-growers and tend to grow much shorter in urban landscapes than they do in larger forests. Hemlocks grow best in rich, moist, well-draining soil. This Ohio Native is found all over Northeast Ohio in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, plus various local Metroparks and forests. ... Looking for more options for the shade garden? We’ve put together a guide full of annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs that grow well in shade with options ranging from Part Shade (4-6 hours of sunlight) to Full Shade (no direct sunlight).
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PlantingTree
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Evergreen Shrubs For Shade | Top 17 Choices - PlantingTree
June 29, 2022 - Explore the top choices in our online plant nursery for shade loving shrubs. The popular American Boxwood is sure to transform your home and garden. This trusted landscape standard provides year-round color, texture, and beauty. Reaching over 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide at maturity this is one of the few large boxwoods. Plant about 6 feet apart for a superb privacy screen. ... The Baby Gem Boxwood is a dwarf evergreen shrub with huge appeal.
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Gardening Know How
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Shade Plants For Year Round Interest - Evergreen Shade Plants For Zone 9 Gardens | Gardening Know How
September 7, 2022 - – Blooming shrub (Check tag; some are deciduous.) Periwinkle (Vinca minor) – Blooming groundcover (also deep shade) Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens) – Blooming plant ... Selecting evergreen plants for deep or full shade is a difficult task, as plants receive less than two hours of sunlight per day.
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Monrovia
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How to choose the best evergreen shrub for your garden | Be Inspired
August 12, 2025 - Handsome tidy appearance. Adapts well to occasional pruning to control size and form. Full sun. Zone: 7 - 11 · Sweetly fragrant, frilly, white flowers cover heat tolerant, upright, evergreen shrub.
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Proven Winners
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21 Best Evergreen Shrubs for Year-Round Garden Color
Add lasting structure and color to your garden with 21 evergreen shrubs that stay lush all year. Perfect for borders, hedges, and low-maintenance landscapes.
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The Spruce
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20 Evergreen Shrubs That Are Perfect for Shade
June 6, 2025 - The yew plant is one of the most shade tolerant evergreen shrubs. Yew plants will grow bright red berries even when grown in full shade.
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Nature Hills
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Shrubs for Shade! Garden Blog at NatureHills.com
June 24, 2022 - 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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North Haven Gardens
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Best Shrubs for Shade in North Texas
April 3, 2025 - This is a list of the best shrubs for North Texas that will create varying degrees of shade in your backyard or garden. Aucuba japonica (‘Gold Dust’ is a popular variety) ‐ Evergreen. Very tolerant of full shade and dry soils.
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Reddit
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Deep shade shrubs : r/pnwgardening
PNW Gardening is a subreddit for the wonderful gardeners here in the Pacific Northwest to come together and discuss region-specific gardening topics including lessons learned, request advice, and share successes (or failures) as we progress along our gardening journeys.
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Reddit
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r/NativePlantGardening on Reddit: Small shrub/evergreen recommendations for birds [mostly full shade, zone 4-5]
February 9, 2024 -

I'm looking for a small shrub (5'H x 4'W max) or evergreen to plant in a mostly full shade area close to some bird feeders. It would be right behind a "zen" rock garden and would need to look decorative, not sucker too much, and hopefully serve to provide food or shelter for birds.

I'm considering these options, most of which I have no experience with.

  • Canada/American Yew (hard to find & seems to spread a lot)

  • Dwarf nativar of Hemlock (this was my best option, but Woolly Adelgid is a concern :/)

  • Maplealeaf Viburnum (potentially too large + viburnum leaf beetle?)

  • Leatherwood (not showy enough for the space?)

  • Dwarf Red Osier Dogwood nativar (not showy enough for the space?)

  • Clethra (never seen birds on it)

  • Dwarf Forthergilla (never seen birds on it)

  • Itea virginica (never seen birds on it)

  • Oakleaf hydrangea (too large unless there are smaller nativars)

I was hoping for something evergreen but there don't seem to be many options for shade. Do any of these sound like they could be a good fit or do you have other recommendations?

Location: Ontario

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Epic Gardening
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19 Evergreen Trees and Shrubs That Thrive in the Shade
September 19, 2024 - Are you looking for an evergreen tree or shrub that’ll prosper on your property despite the fact that it barely sees any sunlight? Colorful azaleas, dark green hollies, and hedge boxwoods are just a few of your many options.
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Garden.org
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Evergreen shrubs that thrive in shade. - Knowledgebase Question - Garden.org
There are 4 responses. To protect us against automated bots, you need to login with a free account in order to view responses in this area of the site.You must be signed in before you can read responses or post questions or answers. Click here to join · « Return to the Garden Knowledgebase ...
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White Flower Farm
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Shrubs for Shade & Part Shade | White Flower Farm
If you have a shady spot in your garden, these shrub varieties will suit nicely. These shade-loving shrubs will perform beautifully in part shade (which we casually define as 3-4 hours of sun per day) to full shade (spots that receive no direct sun at all).
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RHS
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10 award-winning (AGM) evergreen shrubs for dry shade / RHS
If what you need is a small evergreen that develops an impenetrable twiggy mass of spiny growth – perhaps to deter next door’s corgi from invading your garden or to prevent the postman cutting a corner – then Berberis × stenophylla ‘Corallina Compacta’ is the shrub for you. The small green leaves are sharply spined at the tip and in April masses of tightly packed clusters of orange-yellow flowers line the branches followed by blue-black berries. Wear gloves when planting. 40cm (16in). Hardiness rating H5. ... Box is a favourite for hedging and topiary, often planted in full sun where it can suffer in dry soils and hot summers. In dry shade, however, it thrives once established and a quick look at the AGM winning varieties reveals an unexpected variation in form.
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Proven Winners
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9 Evergreen Shrubs for Year-Round Interest - Proven Winners ColorChoice Flowering Shrubs
May 21, 2025 - Boxwoods are a landscape classic! You can often find these handsome shrubs in formal gardens, but they look dashing in informal settings as well. They are rarely if ever eaten by deer, and they thrive in full sun to full shade, making them an ...
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Better Homes & Gardens
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22 Best Shrubs for Shade That Thrive Without Much Sun
April 9, 2025 - Aucuba, also known as gold dust plant, thrives in low-maintenance shade borders. This slow-growing, evergreen shrub has yellow-speckled foliage year-round, providing color and texture when other plants go dormant for winter.