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Double Amethyst Ice Primrose

Start off spring right with this early bloomer featuring double, purple colored flowers edged and streaked with white and held on short stems above its foliage. Perfect for grouping, these […]

Glossy, evergreen leaves are shiny and nearly glow in the shaded landscape. Polyblepharum means “many eyelashes” in reference to the hairy fiddleheads and petioles. As the fiddleheads unfurl they flip […]

Christmas Fern

Adaptable and evergreen, this native tolerates such a wide range of landscape conditions that it is a must for the American Beauties garden. While it will thrive in very moist […]

Ruby Slippers Solomon’s Seal

Arching, ruby red stems hold blue-green leaves with silvery backing. Stems slowly spread underground each year creating a colony of color that thrives in shady gardens. Fragrant bell-shaped flowers form […]

Jacob’s Ladder

Small, dark green leaves make for the perfect backdrop for the slate-blue, bell-shaped flowers held atop long, upright stems in May and June. Butterflies and other pollinators are drawn to […]

Sherwood Purple Creeping Phlox

How can you go wrong with a plant that grows in shade, blooms like crazy in early to mid spring and is one of the most low maintenance plants you […]

Blue Moon Woodland Phlox

Sometimes gardeners think that the only good plant is the newest plant from the hottest breeder. ‘Blue Moon’, a superb native plant discovered by Bill Cullina at the New England […]

Purple Riding Hood Beardstongue

Beardstongue is a native North American wildflower and so it’s used to a care-free life, but don’t let the word ‘Native’ scare you away for a lack of a flower […]

Green Carpet Japanese Spurge

A marked improvement over the straight species, ‘Green Carpet’ provides you with a dense, neat growing, non-floppy plant that thrives in full shade. This is the perfect groundcover for growing […]

Royal Fern

Combining an aggressive growing nature and great looks, this native fern is a ‘must have’ plant for the shady areas of your landscape. Big, wide fronds rise out of the […]