Partial Shade
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‘Chocolate Shogun’ astilbe
Astilbe ‘Chocolate Shogun’'Chocolate Shogun' astilbe features unique dark purple-brown foliage that creates long-lasting color in any partial sun to shade garden.
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Blue Enchantress® hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Monmar’This is a superb rebloomer for summer-long color. Large, blue mopheads age to a vintage cream-splashed green color. Blooms will turn pink with less acidity.
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‘Lime Rickey’ heuchera
Heuchera x ‘Lime Rickey’Ruffled foliage emerges chartreuse, maturing to lime green. Small, pure white flowers on tall spindly stems provide additional interest. A stand out in containers and borders.
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RhododendronDurable variety with small trusses of bright lavender-pink blooms contrasting with mahogany-brown winter foliage color. Stands up to heat as well as cold.
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Western maidenhair fern
Adiantum pedatum ssp. aleuticumThis is an elegant, deciduous fern with medium green fronds on dark brown or black stalks with thick creeping rhizomes.
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Blue phlox
Phlox divaricata and cvs.This spreading, semi-evergreen perennial has hairy leaves and lavender-blue to pale violet and white flowers borne in open clusters in early spring.
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‘HGC Pink Frost’ hellebore
Helleborus × ballardiae ‘HGC Pink Frost’‘HGC Pink Frost’ is part of a new series of hellebores that, for the Midwest, bloom as early as January; this cultivar blooms a bit later, usually in March.
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Japanese forest peony
Paeonia obovataWe’ve been cheerleaders for wild species peonies for years.
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Euphorbia griffithii
Euphorbia griffithiiThis species has red stems and dark green leaves, which emerge in spring with a reddish tinge.
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Hardy begonia
Begonia grandis subsp. evansianaThis tuberous begonia bears green heart-shaped foliage with red veining and claret-stained undersides that steal the show when backlit.