Need a cascading flowering hanging basket in the shade

 We live just north of Toronto Ontario.

Our home faces north and our plan is to place a hanging basket on
either side of the garage (north side of the house; some morning sun)
just under the eve of the roof (about 8 feet off the ground). We want
as much colour as possible and we want it to cascade as the summer
goes on. Each year we have trouble finding such a combination ie
colour, shade, cascading. Can you suggest?

 21Rouge wrote:

Try impatiens.  Technically a perennial, you can treat it as an annual.
 Many do quite well in the shade but tolerate sun.  It's fast growing
and will quickly cascade and hide the basket in which it is growing.

--
David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/>

 
"David E. Ross" advised:


What about petunias?  They'll bloom as long as you keep feeding, watering,
and pinching off the spent blooms.  There are many varieties made for
hanging baskets, and if you bring them indoors in the fall, they'll continue
to bloom.  I've done it, but have to admit, that after a while they get to
be too leggy and not nearly so nice, so then I throw them out to freeze and
die.

~~ Shelly ~~

 wrote:

HI Shelly,

We would for sure use petunias and there are even ones that require
minimal pinching but facing north under the eve provides less sun than
I may have led you to believe in my initial post. Keep trying ;).

 

Petunias need sun or part sun. They don't grow in the shade.