Plants for shade >  Perennials L - P
Lamium

Lamium

Dead nettles, but non running, large flowered species.
Lathyrus

Lathyrus

Peas, in this case European herbaceous, low growing and bushy woodland species that flower in late Spring and early Summer. They combine beautifully with the elegant pale cream/white Narcissus Thalia.
Ligularia

Ligularia

Liriope

Liriope

Meconopsis

Meconopsis

Mukdenia

Mukdenia

Ophiopogon

Ophiopogon

Pachyphragma

Pachyphragma

Persicaria

Persicaria

Clump forming Persicaria with good foliage value. Deciduous and they like a moisure rententive soil.
Podophyllum

Podophyllum

Polygonatum

Polygonatum

A number of species, some very different from the typical solomon's seal.
Primula - Early to mid Spring Flowering

Primula - Early to mid Spring Flowering

A perennial favourite with our customers.
Primula - Late Spring-Summer flowering

Primula - Late Spring-Summer flowering

Moisture and or shade loving species are offered.ey
Plants for shade >  Perennials L - P

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Corydalis calycosa

Corydalis calycosa

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.45 (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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Hylomecon japonica

Hylomecon japonica

£7.50 (2 or fewer items) £7.00 (3 or more items)

A Japanese, yellow flowered woodland poppy. Low growing with pretty leaflets below the flowers. Spreads to form a mat.
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Diphylleia cymosa

Diphylleia cymosa

£12.00

North American species with pointy rounded leaves, plum purple in Spring sometimes mottled. White flowers and blue berries. A choice woodlander.
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Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

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

The native wild form of this easy and very useful evergreen fern. Strap shaped, long undivided fronds giving the plant it's common name Hart's (deer) Tongue fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. Happy in damp shade but also in dry shade once established. This fern works brilliantly with other ferns, hostas and bergenias.
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Special Offer Cyclamen hederifolium AGM - 8 mixed leaved forms.

Special Offer Cyclamen hederifolium AGM - 8 mixed leaved forms.

£40.00

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A mixed batch of leaves and flower colour, 8 x 9cm pots. Super in dry shade, August - September flowering, with flowers appearing in ethereal ring like clumps and with the good looking marbled leaves remaining all Winter long. This collection offers great value for money. Please remember that Cyclamen hederifolium are Summer dormant.
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Cyclamen hederifolium is very easy to grow in any well drained shaded spot and is one of the most tolerant of the driest dry shade. Looks glorious in drifts under deciduous trees. Plants at 20cm centres and at the same depth as the pots. Summer dormant.


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Anemone ranunculoides AGM

Anemone ranunculoides AGM

£5.90

A mid yellow flowered European native species, similar growing to A. nemorosa.
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