Plants For North-facing Gardens
North-facing gardens tend to get the least amount of sun. That doesn’t mean your garden will be boring though as there are loads of shade-loving plants that will thrive.
By type
- Shrubs (281)
- Perennials (192)
- Climbers (98)
- Large shrubs for instant impact (38)
- Ferns (31)
- Seeds (29)
- Alpines & rockeries (27)
- Plants & pots (27)
- Wildflowers (26)
- Trees (24)
- Hedging (23)
- House plants (21)
- Roses (14)
- Plants for gifts (12)
- Conifers (6)
- Herbs (5)
- Bulbs (3)
- Exotics (3)
- Bamboo (1)
- Bedding plants (1)
- Fruit (1)
- Grasses (1)
- Vegetables (1)
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- Architectural silhouettes (79)
- Attractive seedheads (70)
- Autumn foliage colour (66)
- Berries or fruit (73)
- Coloured leaves (53)
- Colourful bark or stems (18)
- Deciduous (21)
- Easy to grow (38)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (281)
- Fast growing (10)
- Flowering (540)
- Long flowering (61)
- Low maintenance (298)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (79)
- Non poisonous (374)
- Plants that are native (29)
- Plants that don't need pruning (2)
- Plants that help filter noise (30)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (279)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (144)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (16)
- Resistant to diseases (110)
- Rose hips (1)
- Stylish in the border (4)
- Sublime umbelliferas (5)
- Suitable for containers (150)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (103)
- Winter colour (274)
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- Arches & pergolas (18)
- Back of border (80)
- Bottom of hedges (146)
- Conservatories (4)
- Covering eyesores (12)
- Front of border (261)
- Middle of border (211)
- Next to a patio (1)
- Next to a pond (74)
- Next to an entrance (43)
- Next to seating areas (36)
- Steep banks (109)
- Through hedges (30)
- Walls & fences (94)
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Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (15)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (19)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (19)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (18)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (15)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (18)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (14)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (12)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (2)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (26)
- 2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (25)
- 2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (19)
Kitchen garden planting guidelines
Clematis 'Henryi'
£14.99
Clematis 'Niobe'
£13.99
Rosa 'Albertine'
£19.99
Hedera hibernica
£17.99
£14.99
Dicksonia antarctica
£159.99
Osmunda regalis
£11.99
Helleborus argutifolius
£16.99
£13.59
Helleborus × hybridus
£6.99
£5.59
Liriope muscari
£11.99
sweet cicely
£1.99
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