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Shade What to plant in that shady spot? Try these shade plants.
New! This will give you a beautiful cloud like groundcover that will bring elegance to the shade garden. Blue Ridge has soft blue fragrant flowers over low tufts of green leaves that blooms in May - even during our late season snows! Perennial plant of the year in '90.
Denver Gold Columbine ( Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Denver Gold’) Plant Select 2001! We continue to be amazed by this columbine with its showy golden flowers in June. Easy to grow and does best in part shade. Repeat blooms if dead-headed. Keep on the dry side. To watch our VIDEO about Denver Gold Columbine, CLICK HERE.
New! This is a pure white columbine flower that is truly stunning! It will bloom for 4 to 6 weeks from mid may through June. Dove's flowers are excellent for cut cut flower arrangements. The dove is a symbol of peace and this columbine will certainly give you peace of mind in the shade garden. A Royal Horticulture Society Merit award in 2003.
New! Striking golden green marbled foliage that at first glance looks like shamrocks! Beautiful large violet flowers from mid May through June. This is by far the best varigated columbine on the market!
Remembrance Columbine (Aquilegia ‘Swan Violet and White’) Plant Select ‘01! More compact than Denver Gold with petals and spurs of incredibly rich, shiny violet-blue which contrast wonderfully against the white interior petals. Easy to grow, does best in part shade.
New! It may not taste like chocolate, nor even smell of it but visually one can easily make the transition. The foliage is incredibly ruffled, chocolate colored above and burgundy underneath. Small purplish flowers but not a heavy producer. A great contrast plant for the shade garden!
 Dale's Variety Coral Bells
(Heuchera americana 'Dale's Variety')
New! Another great drought tolerant coral bell with dark green ivy shaped foilage with unique silver-blue, marbling patterns! Cream flowers spike the foliage in June and july. Great for the shade garden but can handle full sun as well! Like all coral bells we offer, Dale's Varienty looks great planted in mass, used as specimen plant or for edging.
New! Dark gray, edged in silver leaves with purple veining set off cream colored blossoms. Green Spice is vigorous growing and is more shade tolerant than other coral bells and a great contrast plant for the dry shade garden!
 Palace Purple Coral Bells
(Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple')
New! This is one of the most popular Coral Bells on the market - it was named Perennial of the Year in '91 (Yes an oldie but still a goodie)! With it's unique deep purple foliage and it's dark red stems it's a real contrast plant in the shade garden. In early summer it spikes with dainty pinkish to white flowers.
New! Simply a great accent plant for the shade garden! Deep bronze to purple foliage has a light silver overlay between deep purple veins. Flower scapes can reach up to 3 feet with dainty pink blossoms.
Plant Select® 2003 Our grower introduced these to the trade and the Plant Select organization recognized their vigor and beauty. Mounded foliage up to 1 foot wide is a medium green with creamy variegation and the cerise-red flower spikes rise to 1 foot total height. Not only will the butterflies and hummingbirds visit but you may cut these for addition to bouquets! Sun without reflected heat to shade.
New! This is a very handsome geranium with dark reddish-plum finely dissected leaves with blue lilac like flowers from June to August! A wonderful color and textural contrast for the sunny perennial garden or partial shade garden.
In late summer intense true blue blossoms of Hardy Plumbago are a butterfly favorite and blossoming often continues into fall even while the foliage is turning mahogany red. What a visual treat for us humans! Mature height of 8 inches makes it useful for either an accent plant or as colorful ground cover. Sun without reflected heat to shade.
 Alba Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabliis 'Alba') 
New! This is a lovely, rare white form of bleeding heart. Blooms May to June. Easily grown in average well drained soil. Tolerates Full Shade well. The foliage typically goes dormant by mid-summer.
Size Cost 1 Gal $15.00
New! This certainly isn't new to the trade, but many of our customers have asked for Bleeding Heart and what better way than to offer you America's favorite! Like all Bleeding Hearts, Old Fashioned is easy to grow in average well draining soils. The foliage goes dormant in mid summer after blooming with large pink hearts. Handles full shade well.
Size Cost 1 Gal $15.00
 Golden Anniversary Dean Nettle (Lamium maculatum 'Golden Anniversary') 
New! This features beautiful spikes of violet flowers May - September. It's attractive oval leaves remain green with showy golden varigation with tinges of silver. The foliage tends to remain low and dense towards the ground. An ideal plant for the shade garden border, groundcover, even as a mass planting. Butterfies are attracted it's flowers - deer aren't!
Size Cost Standard $4.00
Rain Gauge Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
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Blue Ridge Phlox (Phlox stolonifera 'Blue Ridge') 
Dove Columbine (Aguilegia 'Dove') 
Leprechaun Gold Columbine
(Aquillegia vulgaris 'Leprechaun Gold') 
Chocolate Ruffles Coral Bells
(Heuchera "Chocolate Ruffles') 
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Green Spice Coral Bells
(Heuchera 'Green Spice')
Regina Coral Bells (Heuchera 'Regina')
Dark Reiter (Geranium pratense)
Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis) 
These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant death.
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