Shade Plants

Jeff Yarbrough (May 24, 2003)

• Hostas: Queen Josephine, Gold Standard, Margarita
• Hydrangeas
• Crested leopard plant (Ligularia)
• Heuchera (coral bells)
• Abelia ‘Mardi Gras’ (variegated one)
• Abelia ‘Rose Creek”
• Japanese maple ‘Bloodgood’
• Ajuga ‘Chocolate Chip’
• Acuba
• Japanese aralia
• Taro
• Plumbago (also check out Plumbago scandens, a shade-lover that blooms white)
• Columbine (spring bloomer)
• Bear’s breech
• Aztec grass
• Agapanthus
• Cleyera

Sharon Truett (February 18, 2006)

• Pale Leaf Yucca (Yucca pallida)
• Bamboo Muhly (Muhlenbergia dumosa)
• Firespike (Odontonema strictum)
• Manfreda ‘Macho Mocha”
• Squid Agave (Agave bracteosa)
• Chinese Witch Hazel (Loropetalum chinensis)
• Greek Pattern Plant (Acanthus mollis)
• Xylosma (Xylosma congestum)

Andrea DeLong-Amaya (October 1, 2005)

• Barbados cherry
• Spiderwort
• Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana)
• Columbine (Aqilegia canandensis)
• Possumhaw
• Beautyberry
• Chile pequin
• Inland sea oats
• Pigeonberry
• Turk’s cap