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.

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.

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

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 '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.

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

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

Amelanchier alnifolia or Saskatoon berry offers tasty blueberry-like fruit and is also in important pollinator plant.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, known as kinnikinnick or bear berry, is a slow-growing evergreen native ground cover.

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.

Penstemon digitalis Dakota 'Burgundy' is a beard tongue with lavender-pink tubular flowers and burgundy foliage.

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

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.

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

'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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Ceanothus velutinus is a beautiful white-flowered species related to the California lilacs with aromatic 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.

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

Clematis 'Ashva' is a cold-hardy climber with single, ruffled, violet-purple flowers, central red bars and yellow stamens.

Clematis 'Astra Nova' is a cold-hardy climber with single to semi-double violet-purple flowers with wide white stripes.

Clematis 'Pernille' is a cold-hardy climber with single white flowers, purple margins and veining and yellow stamens.

'Rain Dance' is a re-blooming bush Clematis with glorious shades of blue with contrasting cream centres.

Clematis 'Rosalyn' is a cold-hardy climber with unique, semi-double, magenta-pink flowers.

Clematis 'Super Nova' is a cold-hardy climber with large, single white flowers, dark purple margins and veining.

Clematis Evison 'Abilene' has glowing pink flowers with contrasting yellow anthers.

Clematis Evison 'Acropolis' has magenta-pink flowers with dark pink ribs and contrasting yellow centres.

Clematis 'Avant Garde' is a late-blooming Evison clematis with magenta-red petals and a double centre in pink with yellow stamens.

Clematis Evison 'Bijou' is a dwarf cultivar with violet-purple flowers with pink central stripes and pink anthers.

Clematis Evison 'Bourbon' has large, vibrant red flowers with pink stripes and yellow centres.

Clematis Evison 'Cezanne' is from the compact Boulevard series and grows to just 3-4 feet tall with lovely lavender-blue to mauve flowers.

Clematis Evison 'Charmaine' has rich red, single to double flowers with yellow centres.

Clematis Evison 'Clair de Lune' is a tall, repeat bloomer with large 5-8 inch single flowers of lavender and white flowers.

Clematis Evison 'Corinne' has ruffled white flowers with subtle violet pink stripes and pink and white anthers.

Clematis 'Crystal Fountain' has lavender-blue petals with striped olive green centres, and white and yellow stamens.

Clematis Evison 'Diamantina' has gorgeous, large, 4-6 inch wide, double pom-pom-like, purple-blue flowers.

Clematis Evison 'Diana's Delight' has large, 4-6 inch wide, single, lavender flowers with yellow anthers on 6-8 foot vines.

Clematis Evison Boulevard 'Edda' has large semi-double flowers of deep purple with red bars on 3-4 foot long vines.

Clematis Evison 'Fleuri' is a short, repeat bloomer with large 5 inch wide single flowers of violet-purple.

Clematis Evison 'Giselle' is a stunning cultivar with narrow, pointed petals in shades of light to mid pink.

Clematis 'Guiding Promise' has rich grape purple flowers with hints of raspberry at the edges around purple anthers.

Clematis Evison 'Hyde Hall' has large 5-7 inch single flowers of white with a pale green bar.

Clematis Evison 'Ines' is a short, repeat bloomer with large 3-5 inch wide single lavender flowers.

Clematis 'Josephine' has big double pink flowers with with lilac pink petals centred with a magenta midrib.

Clematis Evison 'Kitty' is a powerhouse bloomer said to put on a flower show for up to six months a year!

Clematis Evison 'Lindsay' is a 6-8 foot tall, repeat-blooming vine with large 6-7 inch wide blue-purple flowers.

Clematis Evison 'Olympia' has single to semi-double lavender blue flowers with lemon yellow centres.

Clematis Evison 'Parisienne' has large 6 inch wide, single, mauve flowers with purple anthers on 3-4 foot tall vines.

Clematis Evison 'Picardy' produces large, single flowers of red and purple with deep red bars on vines just 3-4 feet tall.

Clematis Evison 'Poseidon' is a short, repeat bloomer with 4-5 inch wide single flowers of pink and magenta.

Clematis Evison 'Rosemoor' offers rich fuchsia-red flowers with lavender-red central bands.

Clematis Evison 'Sally' is a beautiful, free-flowering pink cultivar with deeper pink central bars.

Clematis Evison 'Samaritan Jo' has pointed petals in silvery pink with purple edging and dark purple and yellow centres.

Clematis Evison 'Sarah Elizabeth' is from the compact Boulevard series with distinctive, glowing almost salmon pink flowers.

Clematis Evison 'Tekla' has large, single flowers of magenta-pink with light pink bars and white and purple anthers.

Clematis Evison 'The Duchess of Cornwall' is a short, repeat bloomer with large single flowers of rich violet-blue.

Clematis 'Vicki' has rich pink flowers with magenta-red central bands for a striking bicolour display.

Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' is a compact shrub with white bottlebrush flowers that are fragrant and nectar-rich.

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' is a compact shrub with pink and white bottlebrush flowers that are fragrant and nectar-rich.

Comptonia peregrina, commonly known as sweet fern for its fragrant, lustrous, fern-like foliage, is a super hardy shrub for terrible, infertile soils.

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 sericea (syn. stolonifera) is a beautiful native shrub known as red osier dogwood most famous for its red winter stems.

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

Corydalis ochroleuca is smothered in fragrant, creamy white, tubular flowers with yellow at the centres for months.

Delosperma nubigenum has bright yellow single flowers that burst into colour in early summer and continue right through fall.

Delosperma 'Red Mountain Flame' is an evergreen ground cover with masses of scarlet flowers accented with magenta and white.

Delphinium elatum 'Celebration' is a large larkspur with semi-double soft lemon to cream flowers.

Delphinium elatum 'Princess Caroline' is a mid-sized larkspur with semi-double flowers in salmon-pink with red streaks.

Delphinium 'Red Lark' is a compact larkspur with fully double flowers in bold coral-red atop lacy green foliage.

Delphinium Highlander 'Bolero' offers ruffly, fully double flowers in shades of lavender purple, blue, and creamy white

Delphinium Highlander 'Cha Cha' is a larkspur with ruffled, fully double flowers in shades of soft lilac-pink with darker eyes.

Delphinium Highlander 'Flamenco' is magnificent with ruffled, fully double flowers in shades of dusky, deep raspberry pink.

Delphinium Highlander 'Moonlight' is magnificent with ruffled, fully double flowers in shades of lilac blue with apple-green centres.

Delphinium Highlander 'Mystery Sensation' is a larkspur with ruffled, fully double flowers in soft shades of pink with yellow centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Black Eyed Angels' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, pure white, single flowers with pure black centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Blue Buccaneers' offers dense spikes of glowing deep blue, single flowers with black centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Blue Lace' blooms with dense spikes of sky blue flowers with a touch of lavender pink.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Cobalt Dreams' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, royal blue to cobalt blue, single flowers with white centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Dusky Maidens' blooms with dense spikes in frilly shades of pink and lavender.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Green Twist' blooms with dense spikes of frilly white flowers with streaks of green.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Pagan Purples' blooms with dark royal purple flowers.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Pink Punch' has dense spikes of frilly, mulberry pink, single flowers with white, black or pink centres.

Delphinium New Millennium 'Purple Passion' blooms with dense spikes of frilly, warm, rich, purple, single flowers with white centres.

The Pacific or western bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa) is a lovely shade with fern-like foliage and pendulous pink flowers.