Acanthus 'Whitewater' forms vigorous mounds of variegated foliage and pink stems holding white flowers.

Achillea 'Coronation Gold' is an award-winning yarrow with masses of flat-topped, golden yellow flowers.

Achillea 'Apricot Delight' has large, flat-topped flower clusters in various shades of pink atop fern-like foliage.

Achillea millefolium 'New Vintage Rose' has large, flat-topped flower clusters of rose pink with white eyes.

Achillea millefolium 'New Vintage White' has large, flat-topped flower clusters of pure white eyes flowers.

Achillea 'Terracotta' is a distinctive yarrow offering shades of yellow, orange, and terra cotta.

Achillea millefolium, the common yarrow, is an important nectar source and host plant for a diversity of insects.

Achillea ptarmica 'Peter Cottontail' is a unique yarrow with white, button-like flowers held in low, cloud-like mounds.

Achlys triphylla is a unique ground cover attractive to pollinators and hummingbirds. The dried three-part leaves smell like vanilla.

Actaea japonica 'Silver Dance' has wands of creamy-white bottle brush flowers and silver foliage maturing to green.

Actaea (Cimicifuga) 'White Pearl' has dissected green foliage and exceptionally long spires of fragrant white flowers in late summer.

Actaea pachypoda 'Misty Blue' is a white baneberry with bluish foliage and white flowers followed by white fruit with a black dot.

Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga) 'Black Negligee' has lacy black foliage and wands of fragrant, white flowers in late summer.

Adenophora 'Gaudi Violet' is a beautiful bellflower relative with elegant spikes of light violet bell-shaped flowers.

Adiantum pedatum, the northern Maidenhair fern, is one of the most beautiful of all ferns with distinctive palmate fronds.

Adiantum raddianum 'Fragrantissimum' is an evergreen maidenhair fern with arching black stems and light green aromatic fronds.

The evergreen Himalayan maidenhair fern, Adiantum venustum, forms delicate and elegant, slowly expanding mats.

Adiantum x mairisii is a delicate hybrid with black stems and lacy, bright green fronds. Sure to delight in the shade garden.

Agapanthus 'Galaxy Blue' has large umbels of royal blue, trumpet-shaped blossoms. Hardy to zone 6!

Agapanthus 'Galaxy White' has five inch wide umbels of white, trumpet-shaped blossoms on tall stems. Hardy to zone 6!

Agapanthus 'Silver Moon' has variegated leaves light lavender-blue flowers in rounded clusters.

Agapanthus 'Twister' is a striking bicolour lily-of-the-nile with rich blue and white flowers.

Agapanthus 'Valencia' offers sky blue flowers with darker veins and reverses on dark stems.

Agapanthus Fireworks is a striking lily-of-the-Nile with bicolour flowers of violet blue and white.

Among the best of the blue Agastache, 'Black Adder' has blue flowers and deep purple blue bracts for a bicolour effect.

Agastache 'Guava Lava' is a hummingbird mint with coral-orange flowers and mauve-pink calyxes.

Agastache 'Mango Tango' is a compact, long-blooming hummingbird mint with dusky rose and peachy orange flowers.

Agastache 'Morello' is a dramatic hummingbird mint with huge, dense infloresences of deep burgundy rose flowers.

Agastache Meant to Bee 'Queen Nectarine' has soft peach flowers with mauve calyxes on tall three foot stems.

Agastache 'Royal Raspberry' is a long-blooming hummingbird mint with fragrant purple tubular flowers and aromatic foliage.

Agastache 'Tango' is a dwarf cultivar with big flower power in firey orange for containers or the front of the border.

Agastache cana Sonoran Sunset forms short, full, stocky plants to 16 inches tall and wide boasting masses of fragrant raspberry purple flowers atop fragrant foliage.

Agastache Coronado Red is a long-blooming hummingbird mint with brilliant, fiery, orange-red, tubular flowers from late spring until fall.

Agastache foeniculum is a long-blooming perennial great for summer colour and bees and butterflies.

Agastache rupestris has narrow, grey-green, root beer-scented foliage on bushy mounds topped by apricot-orange tubular flowers in summer.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Cordial Canary' is a semi-evergreen bugleweed with bright gold foliage and cobalt-blue flowers.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Fancy Finch' is a semi-evergreen bugleweed offering colours of gold, bronze and green with blue flowers.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Fierce Falcon' is a semi-evergreen bugleweed with glossy, purple to black foliage and cobalt-blue flowers.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Noble Nightingale' is a semi-evergreen bugleweed with metallic black leaves and cobalt with blue flowers.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Parrot Paradise' is a semi-evergreen bugleweed with yellow, orange, and red leaves with blue flowers.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Petite Parakeet' offers shades of yellow, red and green leaves with cobalt blue flowers.

Ajuga Feathered Friends 'Tropical Toucan' is a semi-evergreen bugleweed with golden yellow leaves with blue flowers.

Ajuga reptans 'Blueberry Muffin' is a bugleweed with dark new foliage and blueberry-blue flowers on eight inch spikes.

Ajuga 'Valfredda' Chocolate Chip has small, narrow, elongated leaves that are flushed with burgundy when young and in more sun.

Ajuga tenorii 'Princess Nadia' has gorgeous variegated leaves in shades of grey-green, cream, and pink topped with reblooming purple-blue flower spikes.

Alcea rosea Spotlight 'Blacknight' is a hollyhock with large, old-fashioned, single, purple-black flowers with small white eyes.

Alcea rosea Spotlight 'Mars Magic' is a hollyhock with large, old-fashioned, single, red flowers with bright yellow eyes.

Alcea rosea Spotlight 'Polarstar' is a hollyhock with large, old-fashioned, single white flowers with bright yellow eyes.

Alcea rosea Spotlight 'Radiant Rose' is a hollyhock with large, old-fashioned, single rosy-pink flowers with bright yellow eyes.

Alchemilla ellenbeckii is an unusual, creeping lady's mantle with trailing, reddish stems with tiny leaves and electric green flowers.

Allium 'In Orbit' is an ornamental onion that forms 3 inch wide drumstick spheres of lavender-purple.

Allium 'Medusa's Hair' is an ornamental onion with snake-like, green foliage and purple flower spheres.

Allium 'Millenium' forms fantastic two inch spheres on tall stems like rose-purple balloons floating in the summer garden.

Allium 'Serendipity' forms two inch spheres on tall blue-green stems like rose-purple balloons floating in the summer garden.

Alstroemeria 'Dusty Rose' is a Peruvian lily with unique dusty pink flowers with yellow highlights.

Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' has flowers in orange, red, and yellow with luscious bronze-infused foliage. Potentially hardy to zone 5!

Alstroemeria 'Little Miss Zoe' displays red flowers that have a flush of yellow in the throat and lovely variegated leaves.

Alstroemeria 'Spring Valley' is a cold-hardy Peruvian lily with yellow petals with dark orange highlights.

Alstroemeria 'Summer Break' is a cold hardy Peruvian lily with pink petals, white throats and burgundy markings on extra tall stems.

Alstroemeria 'Summer Pepper' is a Peruvian lily with red petals, yellow throats and dark markings on tall stems.

Alstroemeria 'Summer Saint' is a cold-hardy Peruvian lily with pink petals and creamy-yellow throats on tall stems.

Alstroemeria 'Summer Sky' is a cold-hardy Peruvian lily with white petals and yellow throats on tall stems.

Alstroemeria Inca 'Gold Coast' is a Peruvian lily with tropical looking blooms of lemon-yellow with speckled centres.

Alstroemeria Inticancha 'Bryce' is a dwarf Peruvian lily that has yellow, orange and red flowers that bloom from summer to fall.

Alstroemeria Inticancha 'Romance' is a dwarf Peruvian lily with pink and white flowers that bloom from summer to fall.

Alstroemeria Inticancha 'Sunstar' is a dwarf Peruvian lily with fuchsia-pink petals, yellow throats, and red speckles.

Two tones of dark and light blue make the flowers of Amsonia 'Blue Ice' the best in the genus.

Amsonia hubrichtii 'Butterscotch' is a blue star with powder-blue flowers and willow-like foliage with bright gold fall colour.

Amsonia 'Storm Cloud' displays star-like periwinkle blue flowers above silver veined foliage on dramatic near-black stems.

Anaphalis margaritacea (pearly everlasting) has crisp white flowers attractive to butterflies and which are useful for drying.

Anemone 'Curtain Call Pink' has rose pink, double flowers with yellow centres on short, compact plants.

Anemone 'Dainty Swan' is the pink version of 'Wild Swan' with rich, rose pink reverses on large, white flowers all summer long.

Anemone 'Elfin Swan' is the dwarf version of 'Wild Swan' with large, white outward-facing flowers with purple reverses reaching just 14 inches high and blooming all summer.

'Pocahontas' is a dwarf Japanese anemone with tons of pink double flowers over compact foliage.

Anemone Fantasy 'Snow Angel' is a vigorous, clumping selection with semi-double, pure white flowers.

This charming red or 'Rubra' form of Anemone multifida deserves to be better-known.

Anemone multifida, the Pacific anemone, is a wonderfully textured BC native with finely cut foliage covered and white flowers.

Anemone occidentalis, the western pasqueflower, has charming white flowers and ornamental silky seed heads.

Anemone Puff 'Pink' is a compact Japanese anemone with amazing rosy-pink pompon flowers.

Anemone rupicola 'Frilly Knickers' is a Japanese anemone with flowers in white and violet tones around yellow centres.

Anemone Satin Doll 'Glow' is a long-blooming, dwarf Japanese anemone with large, mauve-pink flowers.

Anemone Wild Swan is a profilic plant with continuous bloom from June until frost with large, white flowers backed with light purple.

Anemone Spring Beauty Pink has fragrant, bubble gum-pink flowers in early spring.

Anemonella thalictroides 'Rosea' known as rue anemone, is a delicate spring ephemeral with pale pink flowers.

Angelica gigas produces giant, crimson-purple, umbrella-shaped flowers on dark stalks nearly two metres high!

Antennaria dioica 'Rubra', pink pussytoes, is small, cold hardy ground cover with silver leaves and fuzzy, pink flowers.

Antennaria plantaginifolia is a cold hardy, ground covering pussytoes with silver-green leaves and fuzzy, white and pink flowers.

Anthericum liliago known as St. Bernard's lily, produces lily-like, star-shaped white flowers with yellow anthers.

Anthirrhimum sempervirens 'Drew's Folly' is a hardy perennial snapdragon with dusty pink flowers and fuzzy dark green foliage.

Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns' is short in stature but free-flowering with red and yellow flowers popular with hummingbirds.

Aquilegia canadensis has wonderful nodding bright red flowers with prominent nectar-filled spurs and yellow centres.

Aquilegia chrysantha 'Denver Gold' is a N. American columbine with large, golden-yellow flowers and long, elegant curved spurs.

Aquilegia coerulea 'Rocky Mountain Blue' produces large, showy mid blue and white flowers on stems.

Aquilegia Kirigami 'Rose and Pink' is a columbine with single dark rose and light pink flowers.

Aquilegia Earlybird 'Purple Blue' is a columbine with single purple-blue flowers.

Aquilegia Earlybird 'Red Yellow' is a columbine with bi-coloured single flowers of yellow and red.

Aquilegia Earlybird 'White' is a columbine with single white flowers, yellow stamens and long spurs.

Aquilegia formosa has delicate lantern-like flowers that attract pollinators including hummingbirds.

Arachniodes simplicior 'Variegata' is an Indian Holly fern with a yellow streak running down its gorgeous waxy, dark green, evergreen fonds.

Aralia 'Sun King' has bold, golden foliage offering a tropical look from an extremely hardy plant.

Ariseama triphyllum is one of two native Jack-in-the-pulpit species in North America. It has green and maroon striped spathes.

Armeria maritima, sea thrift or sea pink, forms compact mounds of grass-like foliage topped with clusters of pink flowers.

Artemisia 'Silver Lining' is a mounding white sagebrush with beautiful, broadly dissected, silver-gray foliage.

Aruncus 'Chantilly Lace' produces lacy, branched, horizontal spikes of creamy white flowers atop Astilbe-like foliage.

Aruncus 'Fairy Hair' is a goat's beard that produces sprays of creamy-white flowers above Astilbe-like,  highly dissected foliage.

Aruncus dioicus, the giant goat's beard, is a stately BC native perennial with tall, creamy white plumes.

Asarum canadense is the Canadian wild ginger with bell-shaped brownish-purple flowers and heart-shaped leaves.

Asarum caudatum is a beautiful western North American wild ginger that includes BC within its native range.

Asarum caudatum f. album known as western wild ginger has glossy evergreen leaves and 3-petaled creamy-white flowers.

Asarum europaeum is a groundcover of the highest order with attractive, somewhat glossy, kidney-shaped to round foliage on creeping rhizomes.

Asarum splendens is one of the finest wild gingers with arrow-shaped, deep green leaves with silver marbling.

Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella' has dense clusters of small rose pink and white vanilla-scented flowers that attract butterflies.

Asclepias perennis is a butterfly milkweed with white and pink flowers.

Asclepias speciosa is the western North American sister species to the eastern common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

Asclepias tuberosa 'Deep Red' is a North American butterfly milkweed with nectar-rich, dark orange flowers.

Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow' is an Eastern North American Butterfly milkweed with nectar-rich yellow flowers that feeds Monarch butterflies.

Asclepias tuberosa is a hot orange butterfly milkweed native to the Eastern North America where it feeds monarch butterflies.

Asclepias verticillata is a rare eastern North American native known as the whorled milkweed.

Asclepias viridis is the green milkweed with large clusters of green petals and purple throats.

Asphodeline lutea, king's spear or yellow asphodel, has tall, vertical spikesof fragrant, yellow, lily-like flowers.

Asplenium scolopendrium 'Cristatum' makes a beautiful specimen with shiny, evergreen, tongue-like fronds with a crested tip.

Asplenium trichomanes is a darling native fern that is incredibly tough with pure black stipes and bright green fronds.

Aster subspicatus (Symphyotrichum subspicatum) has lovely lavender flowers with narrow petals around yellow centres.

Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' is a cold hardy heather aster with masses of late season nectar-rich white flowers.

Aster Island 'Bahamas' offers deep hot pink flowers with bright yellow centres.

Aster Island 'Barbados' has late season light purple flowers and bright yellow centres.

Aster 'Lady in Black' forms tall stems clad in burgundy foliage that erupt with hundreds of small white and pink flowers in fall.

Aster novae-angliae 'Grape Crush' is a New England aster with purple flowers with orange eyes.

Aster x frikartii 'Monch' is one of the best of all asters with a long season from summer to fall of bluish lavender flowers.

'Chocolate Shogun' is an Astilbe with a difference: clumps of fern-like, chocolate-coloured foliage with upright, plumes of pale pink flowers.

'Dark Side of the Moon' is a unique Astilbe with dark foliage and purple flowers that bloom in late summer.

'Beauty of Ernst' Color Flash is an Astilbe with an ever-changing foliage display topped with pink flowers in summer.

Astilboides tabularis is one of the best of all foliage plants for a dramatic focal point in the shade.

Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood' is a masterwort with rich, deep pinkish red flowers that last for months.

Astrantia major 'Ruby Wedding' is a fabulous boldly coloured masterwort with rich ruby red umbels.

Astrantia major 'Sparkling Stars Pink' forms clumps of palmate foliage topped with intriguing, bicolour pink and cream flowers.

Astrantia major 'Sparkling Stars Red' forms clumps of palmate foliage topped with intriguing red-maroon and white flowers.

Astrantia 'Star of Beauty' forms clumps of dark green foliage topped with branching stems of intriguing, deep pinkish red flowers.

Astrantia major 'Vanilla Gorilla' is a great masterwort for foliage and flowers with variegated leaves and pink umbels.

Athyrium 'Godzilla' is a giant Japanese painted fern growing 3 feet tall by 6 feet wide! Your shade garden will never be the same.

The lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina, is a beautiful and elegant native fern with pale green deciduous fronds.

Athyrium niponicum 'Aubergine Lady' is a Japanese painted fern with green fronds maturing to deep purple-black.

Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace' is a top notch Japanese painted fern flushed with beautiful purple-pink tones on silver blades.

Athyrium niponicum 'Crested Surf' is a Japanese painted fern with lacey, silver-green fronds and red stems with double crested tips.

Athyrium 'Pearly White' is a Japanese painted fern with silvery-grey fronds with each leaflet centred with silver-white.

Azorella trifurcata 'Nana', the cushion bolax, has shiny, plastic-like feathery foliage and tiny yellow flowers in summer.

Baptisia 'Lunar Eclipse' is an exciting cultivar with shrub sized plants and lupine-like flowers that age from cream to lavender-blue.

Begonia grandis 'Heron's Pirouette' is a hardy, fall-blooming hardy begonia with bright pink flowers in larger clusters.

The hardy Begonia grandis 'Alba' has light green, textured foliage with red-veined reverses and ivory white flowers in fall.

Begonia grandis is a beautiful hardy begonia with light green, nicely textured foliage with dramatically red-veined reverses.

Bergenia 'Happily Ever After' is a pig squeak with massive, rippled, evergreen leaves and white spring flowers tinged in pink.

Bergenia 'Miss Piggy' is a big, bold pig squeak with large dark green leaves and a superior display of rich pink flowers.

Bergenia 'Ripple Effect', known as pig squeak, has very large architectural leaves and white spring flowers.

Deer fern (Blechnum spicant) is a beautiful BC native fern for shady moist places.

Bletilla striata 'Alba' is a beautiful white terrestrial ground orchid. Easy to grow.

Bletilla striata 'Albostriata' has variegated foliage with creamy white edges. Flowers are magenta pink.

Bletilla 'Kuchibeni' has lovely light pink orchid flowers held above strap-like leaves. Easy to grow.

Bletilla striata is an easy terrestrial orchid that produces elegant, cattleya-like, pinkish-purple flowers.

Brunnera 'Alexandria' is the all-silver version of the giant 'Alexander's Great' with heart-shaped silver leaves and blue flowers.

Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack of Diamonds' is a giant version of 'Jack Frost' with leaves reaching 10 inches wide!

Brunnera 'Mr Morse' is the white-flowered version of 'Jack Frost' with the same silvered, heart-shaped leaves.

Brunnera 'Sterling Silver' is a Siberian bugloss with green veining on large, silver foliage and little blue  flowers in spring.

Calamagrostis brachytricha is a superlative clump-forming grass with bright green leaves and thick plumes of silver-pink.

Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue', the lesser calamint, has aromatic foliage and clouds of light purple and blue flowers.

Tolerant of dry sites, Calamintha nepeta 'White Cloud' has masses of white flowers atop aromatic foliage for months.

Callirhoe involucrata is an extremely showy, midwestern US native with luscious, glowing, magenta flowers with white centres.

Caltha palustris 'Plena' is a cold-hardy, moisture-loving, Marsh marigold with green leaves and double, button-shaped, yellow flowers.

Campanula 'Sarastro' is a fragrant and floriferous bellflower with dark purple-blue bell-shaped flowers on branching stems.

Campanula glomerata 'Angel Bells' is a clustered bellflower with large clusters of well formed white flowers.

Campanula glomerata 'Church Bells' is a clustered bellflower with large clusters of well formed violet-blue flowers.

Campanula lactiflora 'Loddon Anna' is a special form of the milky bellflower with pale pink star-like flowers.

Campanula lactiflora 'White Pouffe' is a special compact form of the milky bellflower with white flowers.

Campanula poscharskyana 'Blue Waterfall' offers masses of starry blue flowers from spring to fall.

Campanula rotundifolia is a widespread harebell found throughout temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.

Canna Cannova 'Bronze Peach' is a canna lily with striking dark bronze foliage and peach-coloured flowers.

Canna Cannova 'Bronze Scarlet' has luscious black foliage and bright red flowers and is virus-free.

Nothing says impromptu garden party like the white trumpets of Cardiocrinum giganteum, the giant Himalayan lily, blooming at 6-10 feet tall!

Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger' is an evergreen sedge with startling, steel-blue, pleated foliage.

Carex 'Feather Falls' is a gorgeous striped weeping sedge with narrow variegated foliage and plumes of feathery flowers.

The superlative evergreen sedge, Carex Evercolor 'Everillo', emerges lime green, then turns to golden yellow.

Carex pensylvanica is a fine-textured sedge for shadier spots, including dry shade, as an underplanting or lawn alternative.

Indian paintbrush (Castilleja miniata) is beautiful West Coast native with inflorescences that look like a paintbrush dipped in fiery colours.

Cautleya gracilis (syn. Cautleya lutea) is a hardy shade ginger with tropical foliage & yellow orchid-like flowers in summer.

Cautleya spicata is a hardy shade ginger with yellow orchid-like flowers emerging from red buds in summer.

Centranthus ruber has long-lasting magenta-pink to reddish pink flowers over bluish foliage.

Chrysanthemum Mammoth 'Coral Daisy' is a long-lived perennial with large, semi-double,coral-pink flowers.

Chrysanthemum Mammoth 'Yellow Quill' has lemon yellow quilled petals around a golden yellow centre.

Chrysogonum virginiana var. australe or goldenstar is a an evergreen ground cover with single yellow flowers all summer long.

Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum' is a rare perennial with long-blooming, lipstick red, thistle-like flowers.

Convallaria 'Albostriata' is a special form of lily-of-the-valley with green leaves striped with yellow.

Convallaria majalis 'Bordeaux' is an improved version of the old-fashioned lily-of-the-valley with larger and more plentiful flowers.

Convallaria majalis 'Rosea' is a lily-of-the-valley with pale pink, waxy, fragrant, bell-shaped flowers.

Coreopsis tripteris is a 6 foot high tickseed producing masses of bright yellow flowers from summer to fall.

Cornus canadensis, or bunchberry, is an excellent native ground cover for part shade and loose humusy soils.

'Blue Heron' is a true blue, fragrant Corydalis with finely textured foliage.

Corydalis elata is taller, later blooming, fragrant, and does not go dormant in summer.

Corydalis flexuosa 'Royal Purple' has red-marked leaves and sky blue and light purple, fragrant flowers.

Corydalis flexuosa Hillier 'Porcelain Blue' produces clusters of fragrant, glowing blue flowers atop finely textured foliage.