Plants for shade >  Perennials A - D

Actaea	Aconitum Climbing forms in the main. Monkshoods are a distinct blue colour that is hard to get elsewhere.
Ajuga	Alchemilla Common as muck and tough as old boots, but for dry shade or somewhere the occasional football or foot may land ideal. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Androsace A woodland Androsace.	Anemone A variety of anemones for shade. From the Spring till Autumn.
Anemonella North America woodland Anemone relatives.	Anemonopsis A real aristocrat from the wood covered hillsides of Japan.
Aquilegia Shade tolerant aquilegia from the temperate northern hemisphere.	Aralia Herbaceous tall growing ivy relatives.
Arisaema A selection of hardy forms suitable for a woodland garden.	Aruncus Tall and short growing forms for moisture retentive soils.
Asarum	Aster Woodland Asters suitable for a shade spot in the garden.
Astilbe We don't like the bolt upright arendsii hybrids but are happy to grow the more gracefull weeping varieties as well the dwarf crisped forms.	Astilboides Used to be Rodgersia tabularis. Likes similar moist soils, particularly if grown in full sun.
Astrantia We have a large range of these good garden plants, the very dark red forms need some sun to really colour well.	Beesia An unusual plant from the woods of yunnan.
Bergenia Modern cultivars are much better than the old forms. In flower and foliage.	Begonia
Brunnera Plants recently been valued for foliage as well as flower.	Calanthe
Caltha	Campanula
Cardamine	Cardiandra A group of herbaceous hydragea relatives suitable for a woodlandy soil
Cardiocrinum	Cautleya
Chelonopsis	Chrysoplenium A group of on the whole moisture loving creeping plants from Asia.
Clintonia	Convallaria
Cornus	Corydalis
Cortusa	Cyclamen Hardy cyclamen both spring and Autumn flowering.
Dactylorhiza	Daphne
Dicentra	Digitalis
Disporopsis	Disporum
Dodecatheon Shooting stars; unusual members of the primula family from North America.