Perennial Ornamental Grasses For 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...

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Astilbe Fanal thrives in dappled or full shade gardens. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Astilbe Fanal a good deep watering.

We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system to rot.

Heucherella Brass Lantern combines the best traits of Heuchera and Tiarella. Brass Lantern produces a compact, basal mound (to 8″ tall) of large, rounded, lobed, long-petioled, glossy burnished bronze leaves.

Sum and Substance does best in part to full shade. Unlike other hostas, Sum and Substance is very large, 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide. Sum and Substance likes to stay in moist, humus rich soil.

Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks.

Prefers bright shade and humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate average to dry soils and full shade. This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins.

Deer resistant. It is an excellent cutting plant for flower arrangements. Can be used in rain gardens. Beautiful rose-copper flower plumes begin their entrance in July with new seed heads appearing all the way into September! Rose Fountain Grass is a...

Flower and rock gardens and small areas where you would like to draw special attention. Quite ornamental. Plant Blue Festuca for a real attention-getter in your lawn. It does well in full sun and poor, fairly dry soil.

As always we recommend fungus. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.

Light pinkish white flowers in late summer. Plant in full to partial sun. Grows only 10'' tall making it perfect as a ground cover or small accent plant in your border garden. Especially striking with lime green or yellow leaves plantings.

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 any other.

Autumn Brilliance fern is noted for its particularly attractive spring frond color which, in comparison to species plants, is brighter red and lasts longer into the spring. They thrive in open or dappled shade.

The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting. Heuchera Citronelle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar.

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. This heuchera shade perennial is a robust grower with fuzzy leaves that range in color from apricot to amber with...

Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years. Heuchera Palace Purple is best grown in organically rich, humusy, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. The original purple coral bells, it has maple or ivy-like leaves which are an attractive...

Hellebore Ivory Prince was selected in 1995 in Sussex, England from a controlled breeding program designed to produce new helleborus plants that exhibited vigorous growth, upright form and flatness of flowers.

A new, improved selection exhibiting superior form with leathery textured, rich green foliage. Bloom period can be longer in mild winters. An introduction of Wayside Gardens of Hodges, South Carolina.

Large variety of color combinations and patterns. Hybrid hellebores are often grown from seed (some come true and some don't), but plants will take two years to bloom when grown from seed.

Sedges are grasslike plants with triangular stems belonging to the Cyperaceae family that encompasses somewhere around 100 genera with up to 5,000 species, depending on the taxonomist consulted.

Easy to grow and provides interest in all four seasons. Richly golden variegated leaves form delicate looking, tough-as-nails mounded plants. 2009 Perennial of the Year.

A slightly larger and much easier plant to grow than the similar, but earlier blooming, // > In the St. Louis area, plants will remain evergreen in moderate winters, but may become scorched and tattered in extremely cold weather, particularly if not...

Stalks from early summer to mid-autumn. This sensuous ornamental grass has huge, silky, sand-pink plumes reaching 2 ft. Long atop 6-7 ft. Dramatic in large dried arrangements.

These grasses are easy to grow and provide interest in all four seasons. Hakonechloa Aureola, Eragrostis Purple Love Grass and Cortaderia Pink Pampas.

The flower spikes of this native grass come to life by creating a pink "cloud-like" effect on the planting area while in bloom. Easy to grow and provides interest in all four seasons.

Growing to 18" tall, the plants' tidy mounding habit make them good options for containers, small spaces and rock gardens. Its narrow, dark green leaves are lined with golden stripes.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Carex Ice Dance will brighten a shady area. This is not to be rushed. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and...