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.

Adiantum hispidulum forms delicate fronds that emerge pink against the previous year's dark green. A unique and gorgeous fern for the shade garden.

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.

Anemone nemorosa 'Allenii' is a pale lavender-blue form of this charming woodland groundcover.

Anemone nemorosa 'Bowles's Purple' is a lavender-blue form of this charming woodland groundcover.

Anemone nemorosa 'Bracteata' is a curious form with semi-double white and green flowers of this charming woodland groundcover.

Anemone nemorosa 'Fruhlingsfee' is pink in bud opening to white flowers with pink reverses.

Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers' is a crazy white-flowered cultivar with leafy, green, finger-like growths emerging from the centre of each flower.

Anemone nemorosa is the wild-type white-flowered form of this charming woodland groundcover.

Anemone ranunculoides 'Semi-Plena' has semi-double, bright yellow flowers.

Anemone ranunculoides is a species with bright yellow flowers related to the better known A. nemorosa.

Anemone x lipsiensis 'Vindobonensis' is an old selection found near Vienna with soft yellow flowers and red-flushed young foliage.

Antirrhinum hispanicum 'Roseum' is a hardy snapdragon with pale pink flowers with a pale yellow dot on the lower lip.

Asarum arifolium is a wild ginger with arrow-shaped, anise-scented, deep green leaves with silver marbling and strange brownish purple, urn shaped flowers.

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

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.

An early bloomer with white flowers that fade to a gentle pink. The big bergenia foliage offers a generous evergreen foliage contrast  to smaller- and finer-leaved colleagues.

Carex Evercolor 'Everglow' has a central green stripe with orange margins from fall to winter.

Ceanothus griseus var. horizontalis 'Diamond Heights' is a low-growing, ground covering California lilac with gold foliage.

Chrysogonum virginiana 'Quinn's Gold' has flowers opening bright yellow and maturing to cream.

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

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

Delosperma Hot Cakes 'Banana Blast' creates carpets of bright yellow flowers with icy white centres.

Delosperma Hot Cakes 'Banana Blast' creates carpets of icy white flowers.

Delosperma Hot Cakes 'Fig Fusion' creates carpets of lavender pink flowers with icy white centres.

Delosperma Hot Cakes 'Pumpkin Perfection' creates carpets of bright orange and orange-red flowers with icy white centres.

Delosperma Hot Cakes 'Saucy Strawberry' creates carpets of red flowers with icy white and magenta centres.

Delosperma Hot Cakes 'Tangerine Tango' creates carpets of deep reddish orange flowers with icy white centres.

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!

'Galadriel' is an improved form of Epimedium x rubrum with bolder red spring foliage and deeper burgundy red fall foliage with the great white and red spring flowers.

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!

Fragaria Aloha Berry is a white strawberry that tastes like a cross between a strawberry and a pineapple!

Fragaria 'Cherry Berry' is a delicious strawberry with fruit that ripens to very dark red, almost purple red, with intense, sweet flavour and bountiful crops.

Fragaria 'Lipstick' is a long-blooming, deep pink-flowered strawberry for use as a groundcover and eating.

Fragaria 'Cherry Berry' is a delicious strawberry with fruit that ripens to very dark red, almost purple red, with intense, sweet flavour and bountiful crops.

Geranium 'Azure Rush' is a sport of 'Rozanne' with lighter blue flowers and a more compact habit.

Geranium 'Rozanne' has purple-blue flowers from June until frost! One of the best of all hardy geraniums and a Perennial Plant of the Year.

'Sandrine' has large, magenta, cranesbill flowers with black centres that flare out into the petals atop chartreuse foliage that deepens to light green.

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

Hakonechloa 'Aureola' is hands down the best shade grass. No one should live without it!

Heucherella 'Redstone Falls' has fabulous trailing orange, marmalade and pink foliage for hanging baskets and ground cover. Better for the shade than Heuchera.

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

Impatiens omeiana foliage is dark velvety green with a wide, whitish stripe down the centre. The yellow flowers occur in early fall though this is mainly a foliage plant.

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

Lithodora Gold 'N' Sapphires displays deep blue flowers atop striking gold foliage.

Groundcover with clusters of long, tubular, flaming red flowers from burgundy sepals atop blue-green foliage.

Mukdenia 'Crimson Fans'/'Karasuba' is a bold shade plant with fans of shiny green leaves that develop dramatic red tints.

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.

Orostachys Gnome Domes are succulent hybrids in mixed foliage colours of green, blue, burgundy, green, orange and silver.

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

Oxalis triangularis forms mounds of purple shamrocks with white to pale pink 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.

Polypodium scouleri has thick, leathery, shiny, deep green fronds on this rare native fern.

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.

Reineckea carnea is an unusual and uncommon evergreen groundcover with pink, fragrant flowers on dark pink spikes opening from dark pink buds.

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.

Sempervivum Chick Charms Autumn Apple forms clusters of large rosettes glowing apple red in fall.

Sempervivum Butterscotch Baby is a unique bicolour selection with unusual butterscotch leaves that have bright red tips.

Sempervivum Citrus Sunrise begins green and red with cream stripes in the spring turning to mostly red with cream margins.

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

Stylophorum diphyllum or Celandine poppy is a rare, bright yellow poppy relative for the woodland garden.

Tanacetum densum var. amani forms evergreen, textured mats of soft, feathery, silver foliage and bright yellow button-like 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.

Trifolium 4 Luck 'Coco Mint' is a darling little groundcover offering vigorous carpets of little shamrocks that are rich burgundy with mint green centres.

Trifolium 4 Luck 'Green Glow' is a darling little groundcover offering vigorous carpets of little shamrocks that are emerald green with mint green tips.

Trifolium 4 Luck 'Red Green' is a darling little groundcover offering vigorous carpets of little shamrocks that are grey-green, burgundy red and emerald green.

Veronica 'Waterperry Blue' is a great evergreen speedwell with burgundy-flushed green foliage and charming lavender flowers.

Veronica 'Snowmass' is a delicate yet vigorous creeping speedwell producing masses of pure white flowers with blue eyes

Viola 'Silver Gem' is a trailing, groundcovering violet with silver foliage and reblooming purple flowers.