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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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