Plants for shade

Hardy Ferns A - D
Adiantum, Arachnoides, Asplenium, Athyrium, Blechnum, Ceterach, Cheilanthus, Cyrtomium, Cystopteris, Dennstaedtia, Dicksonia, Doodia, Dryopteris.

Hardy ferns E - W
Gymnocarpium, Matteuccia, Microlepia, Onoclea, Osmunda, Pellaea, Phegopteris, Polypodium, Polystichum, Pteris, Selaginella, Woodsia, Woodwardia.

Perennials A - D
Actaea, Aconitum, Adenophora, Agapanthus, Ajuga, Androsace, Anemone, Anemonella, Anemonopsis, Aquilegia, Aralia, Arisaema, Arum, Aruncus, Asarum, Astilbe, Astilboides, Astrantia, Beesia, Bergenia, Brunnera, Calanthe, Caltha, Campanula, Cardamine, Caulophyllum, Cautleya, Chelonopsis, Chloranthus, Convallaria, Corydalis, Cyclamen, Dactylorhiza, Deinanthe, Dicentra, Dierama, Digitalis, Diphylleia, Disporopsis, Disporum, Dodecatheon.

Perennials E - K

Perennials L - P
Lamium, Lathyrus, Leucojum, Ligularia, Liriope, Lobelia, Lysmachia, Lysichiton, Meconopsis, Meehania, Melittis, Mertensia, Mitella, Mukdenia, Narcissus, Nephrophyllidium, Omphalodes, Ophiopogon, Ourisia, Pachysandra, Pachyphragma, Paeonia, Paris, Patrinia, Peltoboykinia, Petasites, Phlox, Polemonium, Polygonatum, Primula, Pteridophyllum, Pulmonaria.

Perennials R - Z
Ranunculus, Rheum, Rodgersia, Rohdea, Romanzoffia, Roscoea, Rubus, Salvia, Sanguinaria, Saruma, Saxifraga, Schizostylis, Scoliopus, Smilacina, Soldanella, Spiranthes, Strobilanthes, Symphytum, Syneilesis, Synthyris, Tellima, Thalictrum, Tiarella, Trautvetteria, Tricyrtis, Trillium, Triosteum, Trollius, Tropaeolum, Uvularia, Vancouveria, Veratrum, Viola, Ypsilandra.

Plants for Specific Locations
A selection of plants listed for specific situations in a shady garden.

Best Selling Plants

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 braunii

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

Highly divided glossy fronds. A lovely elegant polystichum. Evergreen.
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Adiantum venustum AGM

£9.00 (2 or fewer items) £8.80 (3 or more items)

The hardy creeping maidenhair fern from the Himalayas. Will spread to form dense ground cover. Evergreen. Not for very dry soils.
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Polystichum tsussimense AGM

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

syn Polystichum luctuosum This neat and low growing pale green Oriental fern has holly like tips and a mass of silvery white scales which gives it a striking silvery appearance in the cool dark, shady conditions it loves. Evergreen.
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Actaea racemosa

£9.50

Much under rated plant with pale green/yellow foliage which looks super planted with the black or brown foliage forms. Candles of white flowers to 2m tall in August and September. A north American species which is comparitively easy to grow.
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Polystichum yunnanense

£7.50

A relatively new introduction, medium sized with pale yellow green fronds. Evergreen and easy.
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