No garden has totally perfect light conditions. Houses, fences, and especially trees cast shade that can make the amount of light your plants receive vary drastically from garden bed to garden bed. This poses a challenge: how to select plants for garden beds that need to jive together visually, but that get totally different amounts of light? Luckily there are versatile plants that can do well in sun and shade, and can form the bedrock of your plantings. Read on to get more tips and plant lists of these workhorse plant varieties.