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  • Holiday Essentials
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  • Browse Plants by Type
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    • Evergreen Trees
    • Dwarf Evergreens
    • Deciduous Trees
    • Fruiting Trees & Herbs
    • Deciduous Shrub
    • Perennials, Ferns & Grass
    • Annuals
    • Seeds and Bulbs
  • Browse Plants by Solution
    • Gardening Essentials
    • Privacy Hedges
    • Size
    • Flower Colour
    • Light Tolerance
  • Browse Plants by Season
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Light tolerance

What is there to know about plants and their lighting needs?

Choosing the right plant for the lighting conditions in your environment is crucial for its health and vitality. Light intensity correlates with the amount of time a plant, tree, or shrub should be exposed to sunlight.

  • Plants with low light tolerance, suitable for full shade or part shade conditions, typically require 2-4 hours of sun exposure per day.
  • Medium light tolerance plants, suitable for sun or partial shade, require approximately 3-6 hours of sun exposure daily.
  • High light tolerance plants, ideal for full sun conditions, requires 6 or more hours of sun exposure each day.

Understanding these light tolerance categories will help you select the perfect plants for your specific lighting conditions, ensuring their optimal growth and well-being.

Partial or Full shade PlantsPartial Shade or Partial Sun PlantsFull Sun Plants

Partial or Full shade

 Perennials 

Windflower

Lilly Of The Valley

Bleeding Heart

Sweet Woodruff

Hosta

Foamy Bells

Solomon's Seal

False Spirea

 Conifers

Balsam Fir


Broadleaf Evergreen

Mountain Fire Pieris

Prelude Pieris 

 Deciduous Trees

Weeping Golden Chain Tree

Golden Chain Tree


Deciduous Flowering Shrubs (Partial shade)

Bloodgood Japanese Maple

Crimson Queen Japanese Maple

Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple

Tamukeyama Japanese Maple

Green Laceleaf Japanese Maple

Pagoda Dogwood

Anabelle Hydrangea
 

Partial Sun or Partial Shade

 Perennials 

Goutweed

Bugleweed

Lady's  Mantle

Columbine

Red Thrift Armeria

Silver Mound wormwood

Heartleaf Bergenia

Bellflower

Purple Coneflower

White Coneflower

Cranesbill

Daylily

Coral Bells

Iris

Becky Shasta Daisy

Spurge

White Summer Phlox

Pink Summer Phlox

Purple Summer Phlox

Black Eyed Susan

Irish Moss

Hens & Chickens

Periwinkle

Broadleaf Evergreens

Green Gem Boxwood

Green Mountain Boxwood

Green Velvet Boxwood

Blue Pince/Princess Holly

Grandiflora Rhodendron

Nova Zembla Rhodendron 


Conifers

Skyrocket Juniper

Dwarf Alberta Spruce

Weeping White Spruce

Serbian Spruce

Eastern White Pine

Clipped Pyramidal Japanese Yew

Densiformis Yew

Fairview Yew

Hick's Yew

Hill's Yew 

Deciduous Trees

Hedge Maple

Autumn Blaze Maple

Amur Maple

Norway Maple

Deborah Maple

Red Maple

Sugar Maple

Tatarian Maple

Ruby-Red Horsechestnut

Ohio Buckeye

Baumann Horsechestnut

River Birch

Pyramidal European Hornbeam

Umbrella Tree

Northern Catalpa

European Beech

Purple Fountain Beech

Red Obelisk Beech

River's Purple Beech

Tricolour Beech

Rose of Sharon Standard

Hydrangea Standard

Susan Magnolia

Saucer Magnolia

Royal Star Magnolia

Mulberry Tree

London Plane Tree

Russian Mountain Ash

Redmond Linden 

Fragrant Snowball Standard

Korean Spice Viburnum Standard

Nannyberry

 Deciduous Flowering Shrubs
Amur Maple

Autumn Magic Chokeberry

Eastern Redbud

Fringe Tree

White Flowering Dogwood

Pink Flowering Dogwood

Red Osier Dogwood

Common Witchhazel

Rose of Sharon

PeeGee Hydrangea

Pink Diamond Hydrangea

Oakleaf Hydrangea

Winterberry

Double Flowering Japanese Kerria

Mockorange

Common Ninebark

American Elderberry

Golden Elderberry

Black Beauty Elderberry

False Spirea

Little Princess Spirea

Bridal Wreath Spirea

Fragrant Snowball

Korean Spice Vibrunum

Nannyberry
 

Full Sun

Perennials

Yarrow

Tickseed

Delphinium

Dianthus

Globe Thistle

Blanket Flower

Candytuft

Lavender

Gayfeather

Catmint

Peony

Beard Tongue

Russian Sage

Creeping Phlox

Stonecrop

Wooly Thyme

Mother-Of-Thyme 


Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 

Paperbark Maple

Concorde Barberry

Rose Glow Barberry

Butterfly Bush

Ivory Halo Dogwood

Chinese Flowering Dogwood

Green Smokebush

Royal Purple Smokebush

Carol Mackie Daphne

Golden Privet

Diablo Purple Ninebark

Summer Wine Ninebark

Purple Leaf Sand Cherry

Variegated Japanese Willow

Flaming Mound Spirea

Gold Mound Spirea

Magic Carpet Spirea

Dwarf Korean Lilac

Miss Kim Lilac

Donald Wyman Lilac

Minuet Lilac

Charles Joy Lilac

Madame Lemoine Lilac

Monge Lilac

Sensation Lilac

Wine & Roses Weigela

Purple Weigela

Minuet Weigela

Red Princess Weigela

Variegated Weigela  


 



Deciduous Trees

Maples

Crimson King Maple

Crimson Sentry Maple

Harlequin Maple

Royal Red Maple


Birch 

Young's Weeping Birch

Jacquemontii Birch


Crab Apple 

Prairiefire Crab Apple 

Profusion Crab Apple

Royalty Crab Apple

Thunderchild Crab Apple


Cherry Tree 

Purpleleaf Sandcherry Standard

Weeping Japanese Cherry Tree

Kwanzan Japanese Cherry Tree

Weeping Higan Cherry Tree

Double Flowering Almond Tree


Ornamental Pear 

Bradford Pear Tree

Chanticleer Ornamental Pear Tree


Oak

 White Oak

Swamp White Oak

Burr Oak

Pin Oak

English Oak

Pyramidal English Oak

Red Oak


Willow

Golden Weeping Willow

Weeping-Pussy Willow

Variegated Japanese Willow

Blue Arctic Willow


Lilac 

Dwarf Korean Lilac Standard

Ivory Lilac Silk Tree


Misc.

Weeping Siberian Peashrub Standard

Weeping Walker Siberian Peashrub Standard

Common Hackberry

Katsura Tree

Sunburst Locust

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Sweet Gum

Tulip Tree

Yellow Bird Magnolia

Greenspire Linden 

Conifers

 Weeping Nootka

 False Cypress

Semi-Dwarf Hinoki

Dwarf Hinoki False Cypress

Threadleaf False Cypress

Golden Threadleaf False Cypress

Mint Julep Juniper

Mountbatten Juniper

Old Gold Juniper

Spartan Juniper

Icee Blue Juniper

Compact Andorra Juniper

Prince Of Wales Juniper

Blue Rug Juniper

Japanese Garden Juniper

Blue Haven Juniper

Moffet Blue Juniper

Wichita Blue Juniper

Blue Star Juniper

Blue Arrow Juniper

American Larch (Tamarack)

Dawn Redwood

Norway Spruce

Little Gem Spruce

Nest Spruce

Weeping Norway Spruce

Colorado Spruce

Baby Blue Spruce

Austrian Pine

Weeping White Pine

Douglas Fir

Golden Japanese Yew 


Broadleaf Evergreen

Country Gold Euonymus

Emerald Gaiety Euonymus

Emerald 'N Gold Euonymus

P.J.M. RhodendronYucca  

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