Shade Favoring Crotons
Several varieties have a preference for being more shaded than sun-drenched. These varieties are most content receiving 2 to 4 hours of direct (weaker) sunlight—in the morning sun of an Northern or Eastern exposure, or a late Western exposure—after 3pm in the Summer. These cultivars are almost always most contented to sit in the dappled shade of spreading oaks, etc., provided the canopy has some holes and isn’t solidly overgrown and, providing there’s decent drainage:
Shade Favoring Crotons
Bravo
Claude Lorraine
Dolores Button
Duncan Macaw
Eburneum*
Fishbone
Geisha Girl
Gen. Lawrence
Glen Roof
King of Siam (Dreadlocks’ shade-loving first cousin)
Madam Butterfly
Magnificent
Mosaic
Mrs. Iceton & yellow Mrs. Iceton
Nervia
Petra & yellow Petra**
Plaid Oak
Polychrome
Raphael
Reliance or Willie
Rheedii
Thanksgiving
Veitchii
Victoria Golden Bells
Wilma
Zulu