Plants for shade >  Perennials A - D
Aconitum

Aconitum

An elegant woodlander, climbing forms in the main. Monkshoods are a distinct blue colour that is hard to get elsewhere. Always wear gloves when handling as ALL parts of the plant are poisonous.
Anemanthele

Anemanthele

Actaea

Actaea

Anemone - Spring  Flowering

Anemone - Spring Flowering

Aster

Aster

Woodland Asters suitable for a shady spot in the garden and valuable Autumn flowers
Aspidistra

Aspidistra

Suprisingly hardy but probably best in a sheltered situation.
Adoxa

Adoxa

Ajuga

Ajuga

Anemonopsis

Anemonopsis

A real aristocrat from the wood covered hillsides of Japan.
Arisaema

Arisaema

A selection of hardy forms suitable for a woodland garden.
Asarum

Asarum

Beesia

Beesia

An unusual plant from the woods of Yunnan. A member of the Buttercup family.
Begonia

Begonia

Brunnera

Brunnera

Plants highly valued for their foliage as well as flowers.
Caltha

Caltha

Cardamine

Cardamine

Cautleya

Cautleya

Cautleya thrive in moist, humus-rich soils and are most at home in the shade of trees and shrubs or in a mixed border if the soils do not dry out. Plant deeply with at least 10cm (4ins) of soil above the rhizomes.
Chelonopsis

Chelonopsis

Chloranthus

Chloranthus

Chrysoplenium

Chrysoplenium

A group of on the whole moisture loving creeping plants from Asia.
Convallaria

Convallaria

Corydalis

Corydalis

Cyclamen

Cyclamen

Hardy Cyclamen both Spring and Autumn flowering.
Deinanthe

Deinanthe

Digitalis

Digitalis

Diphylleia

Diphylleia

Disporopsis

Disporopsis

Disporum

Disporum

Plants for shade >  Perennials A - D

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4 x Native ferns for a wildlife garden

 4 x Native ferns for a wildlife garden

£24.00

{Description}Asplenium scolopendrium (Harts Tongue fern) evergreen 35cm.
Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' (Golden Scale Fern) 60cm -1.2m, evergreen.
Osmunda regalis (Royal Fern) 70 cm deciduous.
Dryopteris filix-mas (Male Fern) 60cm tall, deciduous.

4 ferns, one of each of the above in 9cm pots ready to plant in the garden.
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4 x Evergreen ferns for pots or shady borders

4 x Evergreen ferns for pots or shady borders

£24.00

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Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' (Crested Male Fern) 60cm -1.2m, evergreen.
Polystichum setiferum 60cm, evergreen.
Polystichum polyblepharum 60cm, evergreen.
Dryopteris erythrosora 60cm, evergreen.

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One of each, 4 ferns in total, in 9cm pots ready to plant in the garden.
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Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-multilobum' AGM

Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-multilobum' AGM

£8.50 (2 or fewer items) £8.00 (3 or more items)

syn Polystichum setiferum 'Plumoso-Densum' A fine medium growing form, with divided pinnae on overlapping pinnules. Very architectual in growth. One of the most popular. More for the shade garden rather than the wild garden.
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Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

Polystichum setiferum 'Herrenhausen'

£8.50 (2 or fewer items) £8.00 (3 or more items)

A fine divisilobum form of the soft shield fern. A beautiful, elegant form of this easy very tolerant fern even of dry soils. Makes a very good subject for a container.
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Corydalis calycosa

Corydalis calycosa

£8.00 (2 or fewer items) £7.45 (3 or more items)

Fragrant, piercing blue flowers in May and June and all Summer if not too dry. Easy in a soil that retains a bit of moisture, does very well with us under an apple tree. More perennial, easier and a better garden plant than flexuosa.


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Dryopteris dilatata 'Crispa Whiteside' AGM

Dryopteris dilatata 'Crispa Whiteside' AGM

£8.50 (2 or fewer items) £8.00 (3 or more items)

D. dilatata is the common woodland fern around here but this is a much paler golden green, crisped and congested. A very attractive fern. Semi-evergreen.
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