Quick links to the shade-loving plants in our catalog
Do you have a dark spot in your garden which needs brightening up? Here are some plants which love the shade.
For gardeners who are fond of common names, we've included the most widely used common names for these plants.
Click on the name of any of the plants to view that plant's page.
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Perennials Grasses Shrubs Trees & Vines
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alchemilla ellenbeckii 
 |
Blooms April–mid-August. |
6 | $10.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
Arisaema candidissimum  
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Pink flowered white striped Cobra Lily | Blooms June–July. |
6 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! |
| Asarum caudatum
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Western Wild Ginger | Blooms April–June PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
7 | $12.15 | |
Asarum caudatum f. album 
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Wild Ginger | Blooms April–June. |
7 | $12.15 | |
| Asarum splendens
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Chinese Wild Ginger | Blooms April–May PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
6 | $12.15 | |
| Athyrium filix-femina ‘Lady in Red’
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Blooms PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $12.75 | ||
| Athyrium filix-femina ‘Victoriae’
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Lady Fern | Blooms |
4 | $12.75 | SOLD OUT! |
| Athyrium ‘Ghost’
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Ghost Lady Fern | Blooms PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $12.75 | |
Athyrium niponicum ‘Metallicum’
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Blooms PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $12.75 | ||
| Athyrium niponicum var. pictum
|
Japanese Painted Fern | Blooms |
4 | $12.75 | |
| Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Apple Court’
|
Crested Japanese Painted Fern | Blooms |
4 | $12.75 | |
| Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Red Beauty’
|
Blooms |
4 | $12.75 | ||
| Athyrium niponicum var. pictum ‘Regal Red’
|
Blooms |
4 | $12.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Athyrium otophorum
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Eared Lady Fern | Blooms |
5 | $12.75 | SOLD OUT! |
| Beesia deltophylla
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False Bugbane | Blooms May–June. PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
6 | $11.00 | |
| Cyclamen coum
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Blooms February–March PREORDER FOR MID SUMMER 2025 |
5 | $10.75 | ||
| Cyclamen coum ssp. caucasicum
|
Blooms February–March |
5 | $10.75 | ||
Cyclamen coum ‘Silver Leaf’
 |
Blooms February–March |
5 | $11.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Dicentra ‘Margery Fish’
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Blooms April–May & again in fall. |
5 | $13.25 | ||
| Dicentra spectabilis ‘Gold Heart’
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Blooms April–May PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $13.25 | ||
| Dicentra ‘Stuart Boothman’
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Blooms April–July PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
5 | $13.25 | ||
| Disporum longistylum ‘Night Heron’
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Fairy Bells | Blooms April–July |
5 | $0.00 | SOLD OUT! |
| Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’
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Blooms |
5 | $12.75 | ||
| Dryopteris ludoviciana
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Southern Shield Fern | Blooms |
6 | $12.75 | SOLD OUT! |
| Dryopteris pycnopteroides
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Japanese Wood Fern | Blooms |
6 | $12.75 | SOLD OUT! |
| Eomecon chionantha
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Blooms April. |
6 | $9.75 | ||
| Epimedium ‘Amber Queen’
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Blooms late March–May |
5 | $15.25 | ||
| Epimedium ‘Domino’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $15.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Epimedium x ‘Enchantress’
|
Blooms March–April |
5 | $13.00 | SOLD OUT | |
| Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Dark Beauty’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $14.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Koji’
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Blooms late March–May |
4 | $14.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Pierre’s Purple’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $15.25 | ||
| Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Purple Pixie’
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Blooms April–May |
5 | $15.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Epimedium grandiflorum ‘White Queen’
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Blooms late March–May PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
5 | $14.75 | ||
| Epimedium ‘Mandariin Star’
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Blooms April–May |
5 | $14.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Epimedium x perralchicum ‘Frohnleiten’
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Blooms April–May |
4 | $14.25 | ||
| Epimedium ‘Pink Champagne’
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Blooms April–May |
5 | $15.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum
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Blooms April–May |
4 | $14.25 | ||
| Epimedium x rubrum
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Blooms February–March |
5 | $14.25 | ||
| Epimedium stellulatum ‘Wudang Star’
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Blooms March–April. |
4 | $14.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Epimedium x versicolor ‘Cupreum’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $15.25 | ||
| Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’
|
Blooms March–April |
5 | $14.25 | ||
| Epimedium x warleyense ‘Ellen Willmott’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $15.25 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Epimedium x warleyense ‘Orange Queen’
|
Blooms March–April |
5 | $14.25 | ||
| Epimedium x youngianum ‘Merlin’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $14.25 | ||
| Epimedium x youngianum ‘Niveum’
|
Blooms April–May |
5 | $14.25 | ||
| Geranium x monacense ‘Breckland Fever’
|
Blooms April–July |
6 | $11.00 | ||
| Geranium x monacense ‘Claudine Dupont’
|
Blooms April–September |
6 | $11.00 | ||
| Geranium x monacense ‘Muldoon’
|
Blooms April–August. |
4 | $11.00 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Geranium nodosum
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Blooms May–October. PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
7 | $10.75 | ||
| Geranium nodosum ‘Clos du Coudray’
|
Blooms June–October |
6 | $12.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Geranium nodosum ‘Svelte Lilac’
|
Blooms May–October |
7 | $10.75 | ||
| Geranium phaeum ‘Album’
|
Blooms April–August |
5 | $11.75 | ||
| Geranium phaeum ‘Alec’s Pink’
|
Blooms April–August. |
4 | $11.75 | ||
| Geranium phaeum ‘Langthorn’s Blue’
|
Blooms April–August. |
4 | $11.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Geranium phaeum ‘Lavender Pinwheel’
|
Blooms April–August |
4 | $11.75 | ||
| Geranium phaeum ‘Lily Lovell’
|
Blooms April–August |
5 | $11.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Geranium phaeum ‘Raven’
|
Blooms April–August |
4 | $11.75 | ||
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’
|
Blooms May–September |
5 | $11.75 | ||
| Geranium phaeum ‘Springtime’
|
Blooms April–June |
4 | $11.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Geranium phaeum ‘Walküre’
|
Blooms April – August. |
5 | $11.75 | ||
| Geranium ‘Sabani Blue’
|
Blooms May–June |
5 | $11.75 | ||
| Helleborus x ballardiae ‘HGC Pink Frost’
|
Blooms January–March PREORDER FOR SUMMER 2025 |
5 | $17.75 | ||
| Helleborus ‘HGC Diva’
|
Blooms December–March |
5 | $17.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Helleborus ‘HGC Ice n’ Roses® ‘Merlot’’
|
Blooms December–March |
5 | $17.75 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Helleborus ‘HGC Ice ’n Roses® ′Rose’
|
Blooms November–mid-February |
5 | $17.75 | ||
| Helleborus x hybridus ‘Black Diamond’
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Winter Jewels® Hellebore | Blooms February–April |
5 | $17.50 | |
| Helleborus x hybridus ‘Painted Doubles’
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Winter Jewels® Hellebore | Blooms January–April |
5 | $17.75 | |
| Helleborus x hybridus ‘Picotee Pearl’
|
Winter Jewels® Hellebore | Blooms January–April PREORDER FOR SUMMER 2025 |
5 | $17.75 | |
| Helleborus x hybridus ‘Red Sapphire’
|
Winter Jewels® Hellebore | Blooms February–April |
5 | $17.75 | SOLD OUT! |
| Helleborus x hybridus ‘Sun Flare’
|
Winter Jewels® Hellebore | Blooms January–April |
5 | $17.75 | |
| Helleborus niger ‘HGC Jacob’
|
Blooms December–March PREORDER FOR SUMMER 2025 |
5 | $17.75 | ||
| Ligularia dentata ‘Britt-Marie Crawford’
|
Blooms July–August |
4 | $12.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Ligularia przewalskii
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Blooms July–August. |
5 | $10.00 | ||
| Ligularia stenocephala ‘The Rocket’
|
Blooms July–August |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’
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Golden Creeping Jenny | Blooms April–September. |
5 | $9.75 | |
| Matteuccia struthiopteris
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Ostrich Fern | Blooms PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
3 | $11.50 | |
| Osmunda regalis ‘Purpurascens’
|
Royal Fern | Blooms PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $12.25 | |
| Phlox x arendsii ‘Miss Mary’
|
Blooms July–September |
3 | $11.00 | ||
| Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii ‘Chattahoochee’
|
Blooms April–early June |
3 | $11.00 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Phlox divaricata ‘London Grove Blue’
|
Blooms April–May |
4 | $11.00 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Phlox divaricata ‘May Breeze’
|
Woodland Phlox | Blooms April–May |
4 | $11.00 | |
| Podophyllum peltatum
|
Mayapple | Blooms April |
3 | $11.75 | |
| Polemonium ‘Bressingham Purple’
|
Jacobs Ladder | Blooms April–May PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $10.00 | |
| Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum ‘Variegatum’
|
Blooms April – May. PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $12.25 | ||
| Polystichum polyblepharum
|
Tassel Fern | Blooms |
6 | $12.00 | |
| Polystichum setiferum ‘Herrenhausen’
|
Soft Shield Fern (Divisilobum Group) | Blooms |
6 | $12.00 | |
| Pulmonaria angustifolia ‘Blaues Meer’
|
Blooms February-April PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Pulmonaria ‘Apple Frost’
|
Blooms March–April. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Pulmonaria ‘Benediction’
|
Blooms early March–May. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Pulmonaria ‘Berries and Cream’
|
Blooms March–April. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’
|
Blooms PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria ‘Diana Clare’
|
Blooms late February–April |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria ‘Excalibur’
|
Blooms March–May. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Pulmonaria ‘Little Star’
|
Blooms early March – April. |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria longifolia ssp. cevennensis
|
Cevennes Lungwort | Blooms March – April. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! |
| Pulmonaria longifolia ‘Bertram Anderson’
|
Blooms February–April PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria ‘Majesté’
|
Blooms March–April. |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria ‘Opal’
|
Blooms March–May |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria ‘Roy Davidson’
|
Blooms mid-February–May. |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Dora Bielefeld’
|
Blooms February–April. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Highdown’
|
Bethlehem Sage | Blooms February–April. |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! |
| Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Sissinghurst White’
|
Blooms February–April PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Pulmonaria ‘Silver Streamers’
|
Blooms March–April |
4 | $11.50 | SOLD OUT! | |
| Pulmonaria ‘Silver Bouquet’
|
Blooms March–May PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Pulmonaria ‘Trevi Fountain’
|
Blooms March–April |
4 | $11.50 | ||
| Rohdea japonica
|
Blooms June–July. PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
6 | $10.75 | ||
| Saxifraga stolonifera ‘Maroon Beauty’
|
Strawberry Begonia | Blooms June–October. |
7 | $10.00 | |
| Trachystemon orientalis
|
Oriental Trachystemon | Blooms March |
6 | $10.75 | |
| Tricyrtis ‘Blue Wonder’
|
Blooms September–October |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis ‘Dark Beauty’
|
Blooms September–October |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis ‘Empress’
|
Blooms August–September PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis formosana ‘Autumn Glow’
|
Blooms August–September |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis formosana ‘Samurai’
|
Blooms August–September. |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis ‘Hatatogisa’
|
Blooms September–October. |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis hirta ‘Moonlight’
|
Blooms September–October. |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis x ‘Sinonome’
|
Blooms September–October. PREORDER FOR SPRING 2025 |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Tricyrtis ‘Taipei Silk’
|
Blooms September–October |
5 | $11.50 | ||
| Plant Name | Common Name | Notes | Hardy Zone | Price | Order |
| Trillium albidum
|
Sweet Trillium | Blooms mid-March – late April. |
6 | $12.00 | OUT OF PRODUCTION AT THIS TIME |