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SHADE LOVING
MOSTLY PERENNIALS:
  • Actae matsumurae 'White Pearl' Bugbane or Kamchatra Snakeroot

  • Anemone hupehensis var japonica 'Kriemhilde'

  • Anemone nemorosa 'Robinsoniana' Wood Anemone

  • Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'

  • Anemone sylvestris, snowdrop windflower

  • Anemonella thalictroides, Rue Anemone

  • Aquilegia alpina, Blue Alpine Columbine

  • Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns' American columbine

  • Aquilegia clematiflora 'Green Apples' clematis-flowered columbine

  • Aquilegia coerulea var ochroleuca, white Rocky Mountain columbine

  • Aquilegia flabellata var pumilla 'Nana Alba' dwarf Japanese columbine

  • Aquilegia formosa, western columbine

  • Aquilegia rockii x vulgaris 'Roman Bronze'

  • Aquilegia x sibirica 'Biedermeier' dwarf nosegay columbine

  • Aquilegia vulgaris var . plena 'Ruby Port' Columbine

  • Aquilegia vulgaris var stellata 'Black Barlow' Columbine

  • Aquilegia vulgaris 'William Guinness' Columbine

  • Aquilegia vulgaris 'Woodside Gold' Columbine

  • Aquilegia vulgaris vervaeneana 'Woodside Variegata'

  • Asarum canadense, Canadian wild gingers

  • Asarum caudatum, Northwest wild gingers

  • Asarum delavayi, Chinese giant wild ginger

  • Asarum shuttleworthii 'Callaway' mottled ginger

  • Asarum splendins, Marbled Chinese Wild Ginger

  • Aster divaricatus, White Wood Aster

  • Astilbe japonica 'Bremen' & A. chinensis var. pumila

  • Astilbe x japonica 'Red Sentinel' false spirea

  • Astrantia major: Masterwort, a pleasing European wildflower

  • Astrantia major 'Lars' Greater Masterwort

  • Astrantia major 'Ruby Wedding' greater masterwort

  • Astrantia major ssp involucrata var rosea 'Rose Symphony' Masterwort

  • Bletilla striata, Chinese ground orchid

  • Brunnera macrophylla 'Hadspen Cream' — Creamsickle Bugloss

  • Calceolaria biflora 'Goldcap' pocketbook flower

  • Calceolaria falklandica (biflora), Falkland Lady-slipper

  • Campanula glomerata 'Joan Elliot' Clustered Bellflower

  • Convallaria majalis var rosea, Pink Lily of the Valley

  • Corydalis elata, blue false bleeding heart

  • Corydalis flexuosa 'Blue Panda' — A school of fish swimming over foliage

  • Corydalis flexuosa 'Purple Leaf' aka 'Purple Dragon'

  • Corydalis x flexuosa 'Blackberry Wine'

  • Corydalis leucanthema 'Silver Spectre'

  • Corydalis lutea — Yellow Fumitory

  • Corydalis moorcroftiana x wilsonii 'Canary Feathers' Yellow Fumitory

  • Corydalis ophiocarpa, serpent-pod fumitory

  • Corydalis quantmeyerana 'Chocolate Stars'

  • Cymbalaria aequitriloba,Toadflax Dwarf Kenilworth Ivy

  • Dicentra cucullaria, Dutchman's Breeches

  • Dicentra eximia 'Pink' eastern bleedingheart

  • Dicentra eximia var alba, white eastern bleedingheart

  • Dicentra formosa 'Aurora' white western bleedingheart

  • Dicentra formosa 'Bacchanal' western bleedingheart

  • Decentra x formosa 'Burning Hearts'

  • Dicentra x perigrina 'King of Hearts'

  • Dicentra spectabilis — Old Fashioned Bleeding Hearts

  • Dicentra spectabilis var. alba, white bleedingheart

  • Dicentra spectabilis 'Goldheart'

  • Disporum catoniense 'DJHC 739' Cantonese Fairybells

  • Disporum catoniense 'Night Heron' Cantonese Fairybells

  • Disporum flavum, Korean Fairybells

  • Dodecatheon meadia, white shooting star

  • Dodecatheon pulchyellum, western shooting star

  • Epimedium alpinum 'Rubrum", Red Epimedium

  • Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee", Lilac Epimedium

  • Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum", Yellow Epimedium

  • Epimedium warleyense, Warley Orange Barrenwort

  • Galium odoratum, Useful Sweet Woodruff

  • Hellebore 'Rose Madder'

  • A Young Hellebore 'Border Mix'

  • Hellebore 'Heronswood Yellow'

  • Hellebore 'Slaty'

  • Helleborus levidus, Majorca Island hellebore

  • Hepatica nobilis var acuta, Sharplobe Liverleaf, pallid blue

  • Hepatica nobilis var obtusa, American Roundlobe Liverleaf, powder blue

  • Hepatica nobilis 'Alba' white liverleaf

  • Hosta gracillima 'Sugar Plum Fairy'

  • Hosta sieboldiana 'Frances Williams'

  • Hosta undulata 'Albo Marginata' aka 'Silver Crown'

  • Lichens

  • Liverleaf , Lungwort , & the Doctrine of Signatures

  • Lamium maculatum 'Aureum' spotted dead nettle

  • Lamium maculatum 'Pink Pewter' spotted dead nettle

  • Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy' spotted dead dettle

  • Leptinella squalida, Brass Buttons

  • Ligularia stenocephala 'The Rocket'

  • Liriope muscari 'Lilac Beauty' Lily Turf

  • Liriope muscari 'Silvery Sunproof' Lily Turf

  • Lunaria annua 'Alba Variegata", Variegated Money Plant , a cruel tale

  • Maianthemum dilatatum, False Lily-of-the-Valley

  • Life & Legends of the Ghost Flower, Monotropa uniflora

  • Mushrooms & Fungi in the Garden

  • Myosotis salvatica, forget-me-nots

  • Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo'

  • Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens', Black Mondo Grass

  • Oxalis corniculata var atropurpurea, Purple Creeping Sorrel

  • Oxalis magellanica var flora-pleno 'Nelson'

  • Oxalis oregana forma smalliana, Evergreen Redwood Sorrel

  • Oxalis siliquosa 'Sunset Velvet'

  • Pachysandra; or, Japanese Spurge

  • Bellis perennis 'Habanera' large quilled double English daisy

  • Bellis perennis 'Rominette Pink' double English daisy

  • Podophyllum hexandrum, Himalayan Mayapple

  • Podophyllum peltatum, American Mayapple

  • Polemonium caeruleum 'Snow & Sapphires", Variegated Jacob's Ladder

  • A Meditation Upon Jacob's Ladder

  • Polygonatum falcatum 'Variegatum' Solomon's Seal, & related myths

  • Polygonatum humile, dwarf Solomon's seal

  • Polygonatum verticillatum, whorled Solomon's seal

  • Primula x acaulis 'Blue' primrose

  • Primula auricula, Mountain Cowslip

  • Primula margotae x pruhoniciana 'Garryarde Guinevere'

  • Primula x polyantha, Bright Yellow

  • Primula polyantha 'Dawn Ansell'

  • Primula x polyantha, Finesse Red & Gold

  • Primula x polyantha, Pale Yellow

  • Primula x polyantha 'Velvet Moon'

  • Primula vialii, Orchid Primrose

  • Primula vulgaris (acaulis) 'Quaker's Bonnet'

  • Prunella vulgaris, common self-heal

  • Pulmonaria longifolia 'Bertram Anderson' Long-leaf Lungwort

  • Pulmonaria longifolia x angustifolia 'Little Star'

  • Pulmonaria longifolia ssp cevennensis x saccharata 'Silver Bouquet'

  • Pulmonaria x saccharata 'Pink Haze' lungwort

  • Pulmonaria saccharata 'Dora Bielefeld' lungwort

  • Pulmonaria saccharata x officialis 'Sissinghurst White,' & Lungwort Myths

  • Puff Balls

  • Rodgersia henrici, bronzeleaf rodger's flower

  • Rumex sanguineus ssp. sanguineus: The Macabre Beauty of Bloody Dock

  • Sanguinaria canadensis: Bloodroot, the Flower that Bleeds

  • Silene dioica 'Clifford Moor' variegated catchfly or red campion

  • Soleirolia soleirolii, Baby Tears

  • Solenostemon scutellarioides 'Kiwi Fern' Stained Glassworks Coleus

  • Solenostemon scutellarioides 'Oompah' Stained Glassworks Coleus

  • Symphytum tuberosum: Tuberous Comfrey

  • Thalictrum delavayi — Yunan Meadow Rue

  • Thalictrum rochebrunianum — Lavender Mist Meadow Rue

  • Trametes versicolor, Turkey Tail fungus

  • Tricyrtis formosana 'Gilt Edge' Toad Lily

  • Tricyrtis formosana 'Samurai' Toad Lily

  • Tricyrtis formosana 'Seiryu' Toad Lily

  • Trollius chinensis x lebourii 'Golden Queen' Globeflower

  • Vancouveria hexandra, the northern Inside-Out-Flower

  • Viola cornuta 'Penny Orange' Tufted Violet

  • Viola cornuta 'Rebecca' Tufted Violet

  • Viola x koreana 'Mars'

  • Viola labridorica purpurea

  • Viola tricolor 'Helen Mount' Johnny-Jump-Ups

  • Zingiber mioga 'Dancing Crane' Japanese woodland ginger