Selecting plants for specific sites will save you dollars, hours, and the endless frustration of trying to coax plants into surviving in an unsuitable site. Keeping the wrong plants on life support is much more expensive than choosing the most appropriate plant in the first place, which one like full sun or like shades or like moist soils.
Plants That Like Full Sun
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Annuals/Biennials
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Perennials
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Trees/Shrubs
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Ageratum*
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Aster
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Blue mist
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Alyssum, sweet**
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Blanket flower
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Cotoneaster
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Calendula
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Candytuft
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Flowering quince
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Celosia
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Clematis
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Forsythia
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Chamomile
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Columbine*
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Fruit trees (most)
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Cosmos
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Coralbell**
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Junipers
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Dianthus
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Coreopsis
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Larch/tamarack
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Herbs (many)
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Creeping thyme
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Lilac
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Marigold
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Crocus
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Mock orange
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Nasturtium
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Daffodil*
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Oaks (most)
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Petunia
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Daisy*
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Pines (most)
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Portulaca
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Daylily
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Potentilla
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Salvia
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Grasses, ornamental
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Rose of Sharon
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Vegetables
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Iris
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Roses
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Zinnia
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Lady’s mantle*
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Spiraea
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Peony
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Staghorn sumac
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Phlox, garden
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Tree peony
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Purple cone flower
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Tulip tree
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Rudbeckia
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Walnut
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Sedum*
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Weigela
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Sun flower
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Sweet pea
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Tulip
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Violet*
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Virginia creeper
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Yarrow
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Yucca
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*Tolerates some shade
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**Prefers partial shade in hot
areas
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Plants That Like Shade
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Annuals/Biennials
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Trees/Shrubs
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Begonia
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Bugleweed
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Azalea
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Coleus
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Corydalis, yellow
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Blueberry
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Flowering tobacco
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Ferns, various
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Boxwood
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Foxglove
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Geranium, hardy
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Camellia
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Impatiens
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Hellebore
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Dogwood
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Lobelia
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Hosta
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Fothergilla
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Sweet William
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Lily-of-the-valley
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Fuchsia
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Viola/pansy
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Pachysandra
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Hemlock
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Wishbone flower
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Primrose
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Mountain laurel
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Perennials
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Sweet woodruff
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Oregon grape
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Astilbe*
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Trillium
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Rhododendron
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Bleeding heart
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Vinca minor*
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Serviceberry
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Viburnum
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*Tolerates full sun in the North
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Plants That Like Moist Soil
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Perennials
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Mosses (some)
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Live oak
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Astilbe
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Primrose
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Red maple
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Bergenia
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Trees/Shrubs
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Red osier dogwood
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Calla
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American cranberry
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River birch
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Cattail
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American holly
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Serviceberry
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Daylily
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Chokeberry
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Spicebush
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Dichondra
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Elderberry
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Summersweet
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Iris
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Highbush blueberry
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Tamarack
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Mint
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Inkberry
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Willow
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Reference :
THE DIRT CHEAP GREEN THUMB: 400 Thrifty Tips For Saving Money, Time, And Resources As You Garden by Rhonda M. Hart (2009)
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