40 Perennial Plants to Create Your Perfect Summer Garden

37. Sweet Woodruff

Few shade-loving perennials are most all-around pleasant than Sweet Woodruff. Indeed, this is a plant content to mind its own business and thrive, neither being aggressive nor invasive, it spreads at an even, moderate pace but rewards a patient grower with a lovely, low carpet of sweet-smelling flowers and dark green almost way foliage.

It’s a somewhat tender perennial above USDA zone 5, so northern growers should pick a sheltered place to plant it. Sweet Woodruff, Astilbe, and Hostas together are all you would need for a truly stunning shade garden.