Fescue For Shade

Sporadic repeat blooms until frost, particularly in autumn. Foliage will usually retain some color in cold winter climates such as the St. Louis area. It is easy to grow like a heuchera and has the flower power of Tiarellas.

Unlike other hostas, Sum and Substance is very large, 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide. This plant will tolerate some drought, but must be established. This Hosta is a large, outstanding perennial with a big personality and brightly colored foliage.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Cutting astilbes to within 6 inches of the ground after they has finished flowering helps the plant produce a new flush of foliage.

Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. Prefers bright shade and humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate average to dry soils and full shade.

Bloom typically commences in mid to late winter extending into early spring. Hellebore Ivory Prince is a complex hybrid whose parents are unknown. Flowers acquire pink tones with age.

Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes have inside spotting. Flower colors range from pure white to red to near black.

Plants typically grow to 16” tall. Easily grown in organically rich, fertile, humusy, alkaline, medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Hellebore Pine Knot Series is a selection of unbloomed seedlings in mixed colors of the...

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Young sori are covered by bright red indusia. Site in locations sheltered from strong winds to protect the fronds. It is easy to grow and very adaptable to wet or dry soils. It is native to woodland hillsides and mountain slopes in Japan, China and Taiwan.

A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems. With such showy flowers, they deserve to be in the front of the shade garden.

The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting. Let this lime green superstar make your shade garden shine. Does well in containers.

Heuchera Caramel has purplish-red leaf undersides that offers an attractive contrast, along with white flowers float above the 12″ foliage in early to mid summer. The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a...

While there are ferns that can be grown on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on wall tops, in sun or shade, or even on the bottom of ponds, in fact virtually anywhere. Originally introduced to North America as a houseplant by experimentally-inclined...

Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall. Use this native shade lover in open woodland gardens or along streams or ponds.

(native to woodland areas of eastern North America) in which the goal was to produce a dicentra with a compact and robust habit, long flowering period, blue-gray foliage and quality flower colors.

In cold winter climates, a winter mulch applied after the ground freezes will help prevent root heaving (clumps are shallow-rooted and will develop woody bases rather quickly). The original purple coral bells, it has maple or ivy-like leaves which are...

Blooms in late winter (sometimes when snow is still present) and continues into spring, with a long, 8-10 week bloom period. Flower color is extremely variable, ranging from white to pink to light rose-purple, frequently with interior spotting.

Whorls of hooded, large true purple flowers stand out against silver foliage edged in green. Deer resistant. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall.

Small, creamy white flowers borne in open, airy panicles appear in late spring to early summer on slender, wiry stems rising well above the foliage mound, typically to 20-24” tall.

Which grow primarily in the northern part of the United States up into Canada. The plants active growing period is in spring and summer. The seeds can be sown fairly close together for a turf effect.This is not a true ornamental but can provide a meadowland...

If you choose to leave the flowers, be aware the plant may produce some seedlings.Older blue fescue plants tend to die out a bit in the center. There is even a golden colored blue fescue.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients.

It commonly grows to about 20 cm or higher. This plant usually grows in wet places, especially in grasslands and forests . * The Asian Globeflower ( Trollius asiaticus ) is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae , which is native to Asia and...

It commonly grows to about 20 cm or higher. This plant usually grows in wet places, especially in grasslands and forests . * The Asian Globeflower ( Trollius asiaticus ) is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae , which is native to Asia and...

Lawns in cool areas with plenty of shade will benefit from a turf sown with fine fescue. It is often blended withand rye as well as different varieties of fine fescue. Fungal issues, however, do tend to occur, especially in coastal and high moisture regions.

* Nutmeg Hickory ( Carya myristiciformis ) of the Juglandaceae or Walnut family, also called swamp hickory or bitter water hickory, is found as small, possibly relict populations across the Southern United States and in northern Mexico on rich moist soils...

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. A superb companion with seasonal garden color. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended...