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

Asplenium trichomanes is a darling native fern that is incredibly tough with pure black stipes and bright green fronds.

Aster subspicatus (Symphyotrichum subspicatum) has lovely lavender flowers with narrow petals around yellow centres.

Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' is a cold hardy heather aster with masses of late season nectar-rich white flowers.

Aster Island 'Bahamas' offers deep hot pink flowers with bright yellow centres.

Aster Island 'Barbados' has late season light purple flowers and bright yellow centres.

Aster 'Lady in Black' forms tall stems clad in burgundy foliage that erupt with hundreds of small white and pink flowers in fall.

Aster novae-angliae 'Grape Crush' is a New England aster with purple flowers with orange eyes.

Aster x frikartii 'Monch' is one of the best of all asters with a long season from summer to fall of bluish lavender flowers.

'Chocolate Shogun' is an Astilbe with a difference: clumps of fern-like, chocolate-coloured foliage with upright, plumes of pale pink flowers.

'Dark Side of the Moon' is a unique Astilbe with dark foliage and purple flowers that bloom in late summer.

'Beauty of Ernst' Color Flash is an Astilbe with an ever-changing foliage display topped with pink flowers in summer.

Astilboides tabularis is one of the best of all foliage plants for a dramatic focal point in the shade.

Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood' is a masterwort with rich, deep pinkish red flowers that last for months.

Astrantia major 'Ruby Wedding' is a fabulous boldly coloured masterwort with rich ruby red umbels.

Astrantia major 'Sparkling Stars Pink' forms clumps of palmate foliage topped with intriguing, bicolour pink and cream flowers.

Astrantia major 'Sparkling Stars Red' forms clumps of palmate foliage topped with intriguing red-maroon and white flowers.

Astrantia 'Star of Beauty' forms clumps of dark green foliage topped with branching stems of intriguing, deep pinkish red flowers.

Astrantia major 'Vanilla Gorilla' is a great masterwort for foliage and flowers with variegated leaves and pink umbels.

Athyrium 'Godzilla' is a giant Japanese painted fern growing 3 feet tall by 6 feet wide! Your shade garden will never be the same.

The lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina, is a beautiful and elegant native fern with pale green deciduous fronds.

Athyrium niponicum 'Aubergine Lady' is a Japanese painted fern with green fronds maturing to deep purple-black.

Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace' is a top notch Japanese painted fern flushed with beautiful purple-pink tones on silver blades.

Athyrium niponicum 'Crested Surf' is a Japanese painted fern with lacey, silver-green fronds and red stems with double crested tips.

Athyrium 'Pearly White' is a Japanese painted fern with silvery-grey fronds with each leaflet centred with silver-white.

Azorella trifurcata 'Nana', the cushion bolax, has shiny, plastic-like feathery foliage and tiny yellow flowers in summer.

Baptisia 'Lunar Eclipse' is an exciting cultivar with shrub sized plants and lupine-like flowers that age from cream to lavender-blue.

Begonia grandis 'Heron's Pirouette' is a hardy, fall-blooming hardy begonia with bright pink flowers in larger clusters.

The hardy Begonia grandis 'Alba' has light green, textured foliage with red-veined reverses and ivory white flowers in fall.

Begonia grandis is a beautiful hardy begonia with light green, nicely textured foliage with dramatically red-veined reverses.

Bergenia 'Happily Ever After' is a pig squeak with massive, rippled, evergreen leaves and white spring flowers tinged in pink.

Bergenia 'Miss Piggy' is a big, bold pig squeak with large dark green leaves and a superior display of rich pink flowers.

Bergenia 'Ripple Effect', known as pig squeak, has very large architectural leaves and white spring flowers.

Deer fern (Blechnum spicant) is a beautiful BC native fern for shady moist places.

Bletilla striata 'Alba' is a beautiful white terrestrial ground orchid. Easy to grow.

Bletilla striata 'Albostriata' has variegated foliage with creamy white edges. Flowers are magenta pink.

Bletilla 'Kuchibeni' has lovely light pink orchid flowers held above strap-like leaves. Easy to grow.

Bletilla striata is an easy terrestrial orchid that produces elegant, cattleya-like, pinkish-purple flowers.

Brunnera 'Alexandria' is the all-silver version of the giant 'Alexander's Great' with heart-shaped silver leaves and blue flowers.

Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack of Diamonds' is a giant version of 'Jack Frost' with leaves reaching 10 inches wide!

Brunnera 'Mr Morse' is the white-flowered version of 'Jack Frost' with the same silvered, heart-shaped leaves.

Brunnera 'Sterling Silver' is a Siberian bugloss with green veining on large, silver foliage and little blue  flowers in spring.

Calamagrostis brachytricha is a superlative clump-forming grass with bright green leaves and thick plumes of silver-pink.

Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue', the lesser calamint, has aromatic foliage and clouds of light purple and blue flowers.

Tolerant of dry sites, Calamintha nepeta 'White Cloud' has masses of white flowers atop aromatic foliage for months.

Callirhoe involucrata is an extremely showy, midwestern US native with luscious, glowing, magenta flowers with white centres.

Caltha palustris 'Plena' is a cold-hardy, moisture-loving, Marsh marigold with green leaves and double, button-shaped, yellow flowers.

Campanula 'Sarastro' is a fragrant and floriferous bellflower with dark purple-blue bell-shaped flowers on branching stems.

Campanula glomerata 'Angel Bells' is a clustered bellflower with large clusters of well formed white flowers.

Campanula glomerata 'Church Bells' is a clustered bellflower with large clusters of well formed violet-blue flowers.

Campanula lactiflora 'Loddon Anna' is a special form of the milky bellflower with pale pink star-like flowers.

Campanula lactiflora 'White Pouffe' is a special compact form of the milky bellflower with white flowers.

Campanula poscharskyana 'Blue Waterfall' offers masses of starry blue flowers from spring to fall.

Campanula rotundifolia is a widespread harebell found throughout temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.

Canna Cannova 'Bronze Peach' is a canna lily with striking dark bronze foliage and peach-coloured flowers.

Canna Cannova 'Bronze Scarlet' has luscious black foliage and bright red flowers and is virus-free.

Nothing says impromptu garden party like the white trumpets of Cardiocrinum giganteum, the giant Himalayan lily, blooming at 6-10 feet tall!

Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger' is an evergreen sedge with startling, steel-blue, pleated foliage.

Carex 'Feather Falls' is a gorgeous striped weeping sedge with narrow variegated foliage and plumes of feathery flowers.

The superlative evergreen sedge, Carex Evercolor 'Everillo', emerges lime green, then turns to golden yellow.