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Rodgersia henrici hybrid

This perennial is slowly gaining popularity as a unique plant in the shade garden. It's used primarily as a specimen. Its foliage is has a coarse texture unlike many other shady perennial. Check your soil before you plant because it does not like heavy clay soil. The have a bold, hardy, large fingered leaf with puffy bright pink blooms. It does great in moist areas. This plant will reach 30 inches in height, and is hardy to zone 3.

Datura 'Ballerina Purple'

The Ballerina series of Daturas have upward facing 6-8 inch long blooms in shades of yellow, white, and purple. With a stacked bloom-in-a-bloom appearance, petals are swirled and provide evening fragrance. Plants reach 12 inches in containers and up to 3 feet in borders. Hardy in zones 8-10, Ballerinas can be brought indoors as house plants and returned outdoors in the spring.

Rodgersia henrici hybrid

Salvia lyrata 'Purple Volcano'

Salvia lyrata 'Purple Volcano'

This salvia is easy to grow and does well in full sun or light shade. It does great in nearly any soil, as long as it is well drained. It will even tolerate soil on the drier side. It sports small wispy white blooms and masses of bushy, purple leaves which stay fresh for months. They can make the entire garden sing! You will love the contrast between Purple Volcano's colors and those of its neighbors. It makes yellow daylilies glow and brings out the warm tones of gaillardias and coreopsis. It looks terrific beside any yellow-leafed plant.

Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora'

This plant is a double-flowered cultivar of a shrub from China and Japan. 'Pleniflora' is a very vigorous grower and bears large, fluffy yellow flowers in spring. It is slightly less hardy than the species. The leaves are sharply toothed and bright green. They do great in a shrub border or an open woodland area. The large, pompom-like double yellow flowers are very vigorous. It will grow in full sun or partial shade and fertile, well-drained soil. You may take greenwood cuttings in the summer, or divide in the fall.

Cautleya spicata Robusta

This ornamental and exotic plant, a member of the Ginger family, is ideal for a shady spot in the herbaceous border, or in a woodland garden. Cautleya will both delight and fascinate you. It's a robust plant with broad, spear-shaped leaves. It bears in late summer decorative spikes of ornamental dark red bracts, from which emerge, two-lipped, yellow flowers. But that’s not the end of it! These are followed by curious dark red fruits the skin of which peels back to reveal a plastic-like, pale blue flesh in which are embedded the seeds. This beauty will reach 2½-3 ft in height.

Cautleya spicata Robusta

Eupatorium purpureum 'Atropurpureum'

Eupatorium purpureum 'Atropurpureum'

Joe-Pye Weeds are bold, architectural specimen plants, perfect for making a statement in the border. These plants form huge clumps of coarse green leaves, bearing enormous umbrella-like heads of rosy-purple flowers in late summer. This selection very tall and wide, with the flowers held on deep purple stems. A magnet to butterflies, this is also suitable for planting in a meadow or at the waterside. They are excellent for cutting, and lovely in arrangements.

Schizostylis coccinea

Kaffir Lilly can be found growing in clumps along the rivers of the eastern Cape, Natal and Swaziland, often among rocks in the middle of streams where the roots are almost constantly in water.  Therefore, it's no surprise that they're ideal for planting along streams or ponds.  They also adapt well to container culture.  The foliage is long and grass-like, sheathing the base of the flower spike.  The flowers resemble miniature gladiolus, the petals pointed for a star-like effect, about 2-1/2 inches in diameter and borne 6 to 10 on each 18 to 20 inch stem.

Schizostylis coccinea

Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora'

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