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.

Corydalis lutea has clusters of bright yellow, spurred flowers that bloom above blue-green foliage for months on end.