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

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

Astilbe

Astilbe

We are not mad about the bolt upright arendsii hybrids but are happy to grow the more graceful weeping varieties as well the dwarf crisped forms.
Beesia

Beesia

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

Begonia

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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Roscoea cautleyoides 'Kew Beauty' AGM

Roscoea cautleyoides 'Kew Beauty' AGM

£8.00

By division. A more robust and bigger plant with larger yellow flowers than the species.
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Begonia palmata DJHM 13008

Begonia palmata DJHM 13008

£9.00

A lovely bordeline hardy Begonia collected by Dan Hinkley in Myanmar. With large well marked Mottled bronze palmate leaves and pink flowers in Summer.
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Dicksonia antarctica AGM

Dicksonia antarctica AGM

£9.95 (2 or fewer items) £9.50 (3 or more items)

The hardiest of the tree ferns. These are in 1 litre pots with the fern about 30 cm tall and will start forming trunks in a couple of years. If you have a sheltered moist spot such as a north east/west border beside a house, worth a trial.

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Roscoea x beesiana AGM

Roscoea x beesiana AGM

£7.00

Pretty yellow cream flowers streaked with purple. Vigorous and fully hardy. A hybrid between Roscoea auriculata and Roscoea cautleyoides. Deciduous. Prefers semi shade and a moist but well drained soil.
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Athyrium filix-femina AGM

Athyrium filix-femina AGM

£6.95 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

The native lady fern with lovely fine textured foliage. It was called the lady fern because it was the pretty, slender fern, as against the "rougher" male ferns. Tends to like a slightly more damp position than the male ferns. Deciduous.
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Arisaema ciliatum var. liubaense CT369

Arisaema ciliatum var. liubaense CT369

£8.00

Recently given a separate variety name after the village local to the campsite in Sichuan from where it was collected. Stoloniferous with a single leaf with up to 20 leaflets and a purple spathe striped white. An easy new form.
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