An excellent ground cover especially for crawling over gravel paths or stones. Gorgeous purple-blue-grey foliage with cherry pink stems. Small spherical flower heads flower white and then age to red. Also can be used for trailing from containers.

An excellent ground cover  especially for crawling over gravel paths or stones. Gorgeous blue-grey foliage with cherry pink stems.  A must for those in love with anything glaucous!

Acorus 'Minimus Aureus' forms a slowly-spreading groundcover of finely-textured, linear, golden foliage.

The evergreen Himalayan maidenhair fern, Adiantum venustum, forms delicate and elegant, slowly expanding mounds for the woodland garden.

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

Asarum 'Ling Ling' has heart shaped, evergreen, bright green foliage with silver blotches for the shade garden.

Beesia deltophylla is an evergreen, glossy heart-shaped leaves emerge burgundy and are topped with airy white flowers in the shade garden.

Dianthus Devon Cottage 'Pinball Wizard' has fragrant, double, pale pink flowers boldly streaked and speckled with magenta pink.

Epimedium 'Pink Champagne' has large soft-pink to clear-pink flowers over decorative foliage. An amazing sight in the spring.

Epimedium 'Sphinx Twinkler' has long, narrow, serrated, evergreen leaves emerging red topped with yellow and white spurred flowers.

Epimedium 'Yubae' is one of our favourite barrenworts with large, luscious magenta flowers. One of the best!

Epimedium x warleyense 'Orange Queen' is a spreading barrenwort with coppery orange flowers with yellow centres and semi-evergreen leaves.

Eriogonum umbellatum 'Kannah Creek' has bright yellow umbels maturing to orange atop green foliage turning purple-red in winter.

Blue flower heads of the ultra-compact Eryngium planum 'Blue Hobbit' are surrounded by large frilled blue bracts.

Festuca 'Beyond Blue' is one of the bluest of all fescues and for that matter all grasses!

'All Gold' is a full on golden grass for the shade garden. Hakonechloa are the best grasses for the shade.

Hypericum calycinum 'Fiesta' is a stunning variety with variegated leaves and new growth with a pink blush.

Iris sibirica 'Concord Crush' has bright blue, double flowers that bloom for a long period of time and may rebloom later in the season.

A choice plant that gradually develops into a drift of near-black evergreen foliage that is green at the base. It always looks fresh. Pale lavender flowers in the summer followed by deep purple-black berries. Unendingly useful for plant combinations in pots, along pathways or in garden beds. Try it with hostas, heucheras, nepetas, geraniums,...anything really! Though make sure to combine it with something that will show off its black foliage otherwise it will disappear against the dark soil.

Origanum 'Kent Beauty' has cute shrimp-like, pink flowers held in pendulous clusters from blue-green foliage.

O. rotundifolium 'Kirigami' forms mounds of aromatic, light green foliage and purple, pink, and green, hops-like inflorescences.

Oxalis 'Iron Cross' boasts bicoloured green and red shamrocks with carmine red flowers.

A great alternative to the standard Pachysandra terminalis , P. procumbens also has fragrant flowers and more attractive foliage.

Pachysandra terminalis 'Green Sheen' forms whorls of glossy, leathery foliage topped with white flowers in spring.

Persicaria affinis 'Border Jewel' is an attractive ground cover with multicoloured flower spikes and leaves turning brick red in fall.

Primula sieboldii 'Aka Tombo' is a unique primrose with lobed, magenta petals and a creeping, spreading habit with fuzzy leaves.

Primula sieboldii 'Hokutosei' is a unique primrose with lobed, pale lavender almost white petals and a creeping, spreading habit with fuzzy leaves.

A unique primrose with lobed, magenta petals irregularly streaked with white; and a creeping, spreading habit.

Prunella grandiflora 'Lacy Deep Pink' forms lush, green, spreading mats and clusters of glowing, deep pink, tubular flowers popular with butterflies and bees.

Rohdea japonica is a beautiful and useful evergreen, subtropical-looking perennial from Asia tolerant of dry shade.

Scutellaria suffrutescens or cherry skullcap forms wide-spreading mounds covered bright pink to cherry red, snapdragon-like flowers from spring until fall.

Sedum ellacombianum 'Cutting Edge' is a mounding sedum with scalloped, spatula-shaped leaves with gold margins.

Speirantha convallarioides resembles lily-of-the-valley in foliage adorned with short spikes of sweetly fragrant, star-like, pure white flowers.

Teucrium chamaedrys is a wonderful, low-growing, compact plant with densely packed, attractive, mint-scented leaves.

A spreading cultivar with heart-shaped leaves that have red veins that redden over fall and winter.

Tiarella Sylvan Lace has dense, deeply cut, and darkly patterned foliage with large flower heads. Buds are pink opening to white.