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Best Flowering Perennials for Shade in Overland Park

Best Flowering Perennials for Shade in Overland Park Unlike annuals that need to be replaced each season, perennials are plants that live more than three years. So when you add perennials to your Johnson County yard, you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor for many years to come. These flowering perennials for shade do exceptionally well here in Overland Park, across Kansas City, and throughout  USDA plant hardiness zone 5-6a . Astilbe (False Goat’s Beard) These dense green plants produce a plume of flowers that include white, pink, purple, and red. Additionally, when you plant these flowering perennials in shade, you attract butterflies and other beneficial insects to your Overland Park yard. Dicentra (Bleeding Hearts) Earning its nickname from the delicate heart-shaped blooms that appear in early spring, these flowering perennials do well in shade and part-shade across the Kansas City metro area. Not only are they easy to grow, but they are also deer and