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

Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata The King' AGM

£8.50 (2 or fewer items) £7.95 (3 or more items)

A truly magnificent fern with splendid crests and arching fronds, said to be the 'King of the British Ferns'. In time, to 1.2m tall. Very effective in a pot against a north facing wall. Semi-evergreen.
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Drynaria sinica

£9.00

A lovely hardy fern. Red flushed new frionds emerge in Spring and gradually turn to greysih green. Deciduous but but leaving the brown dried old fronds overwinter. Ver distinct and proving very growable in a wll drained bed in some shade.
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Polystichum aculeatum AGM

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

Native hard shield fern with glossy stiff leathery fronds. Tolerant of most soils and happy with some chalk in the soil. Evergreen.
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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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Athyrium filix-femina 'Frizelliae' AGM