Northeast Gardening: Shade plants for back deck pots, 0 by Noreaster

Noreaster wrote:
Is it really heavy shade? If you want flowers in the shade, then I would recommend impatiens or begonias. I've used Torenia, too. Lots of people like coleus for color in the shade, but some coleus does like a little sun. And then of course any of the shade perennials work nicely in combo containers- ferns, hosta, hakone grass, heuchera, or creeping jenny for a good trailer.

Here's one of my shade containers from a few years ago-" Sinbad" Begonia, Torenia "Magenta Moon", and Hakone grass