Full Shade Perennials

This plant is striking in about any landscape! * Smoky Purple Flowers All Summer * Variable Foliage Adds Texture * Grows in Drier Soil * Fast Growing New plumes are continuously displayed all summer long and gently sway in the slightest breeze.

Purple Fountain Grass is an easy to care for ornamental grass that really delivers. As they age, the plumes will gently arch as they take on a tan hue and persist into fall. You could even put a couple in pots for a stately welcome to your front porch...

* Attracts hummingbirds * Looks great in containers * Provides spiky texture to your garden The flowers are very showy, and they make great cut flowers. Crocosmias are clump forming and bloom best in crowded conditions.

Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates.

Foliage clump typically rises 5-8″ tall. Remove stems of faded flowers to encourage additional bloom and to tidy plantings so that the attractive foliage can be fully appreciated.

It does not like to stay or sit in water or get too dry. Genus name honors Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host (1761-1834). This Hosta is a large, outstanding perennial with a big personality and brightly colored foliage.

A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients.

Tolerates full shade, attracts hummingbirds and pollinators, tolerates urban environments, containers // > Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Patriot does best in rich, moist, organic soils in light, sun-dappled shade.

Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape. Hosta Albomarginata has soft green leaves with white bands, making it very striking. Hosta Albomarginata is a widely popular shade perennial with soft green leaves striped with white...

Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.

Foliage color may fade to a bronze-green in hot summers. Heuchera Palace Purple looks great in the border in clumps, as edging, or in nooks in the rock garden. In cold winter climates, a winter mulch applied after the ground freezes will help prevent...

Few plants shine as brightly as Sweet Kate does in the shade garden. Use this native shade lover in open woodland gardens or along streams or ponds. From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike...

So named due to its copper color when young, the semi-evergreen Autumn Fern matures to a lovely dark green. Reddish frond color often returns in autumn after first fall frost. Young sori are covered by bright red indusia.

This Heucheralle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. Mass as in a group as a ground cover . Let this lime green superstar make your shade garden shine. Effective as an edger along paths or walkways.

This shade perennial is a great addition to your yard or landscape. The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves.

Outward-facing, cup-shaped, creamy white flowers (to 2-3” diameter) with overlapping petals bloom atop reddish stems from late winter to mid-spring (March to May in St. Louis). Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid...

Nodding, cup-shaped, rose-like flowers (to 2″ diameter) with overlapping petals and center crowns of conspicuously contrasting yellow stamens appear in clusters (cymes) at the tips of leafy stems from early February through April.

Cut back flowering stems after bloom to promote new foliage growth. Hellebore Pine Knot Series is a selection of unbloomed seedlings in mixed colors of the best single and semi-double hybrid hellebores which have been developed by Judith and Dick Tyler...

A winter compost mulch applied after the ground freezes will help prevent root heaving. Hybrids have now supplanted species plants in the marketplace. The “Black Standard” which does NOT fade, even in full sun.

It makes a great woodland ground cover and “spiller” for containers. Plant patented. Makes a great ground cover for shade. Deer resistant. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing...

‘Luxuriant' features deeply-cut, fern-like, grayish-green foliage which persists throughout the growing season and cherry red, nodding, heart-shaped flowers carried above the foliage on long, leafless, leaning stems.

Synonymous with ) is a magnificent glossy evergreen that brings beauty to the home or garden. It grows in an outward-spreading, vase-shaped clump to 24” tall and 24” wide. Specific epithet means “many eyelashes” in reference to the bristly scales...

It prefers no direct sun—a delight for shade gardeners—and blooms happily in April and May. With such showy flowers, they deserve to be in the front of the shade garden. Remember that it goes dormant in mid-summer.

In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to grow in order to remove any tips damaged from the winter. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems.

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil.

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil.

Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested. In the St. Louis area, plants will remain evergreen in moderate winters, but may become scorched and tattered in extremely cold...