Featured Plants

Shady woodland spots need special plants to cope with the unique conditions. Bishop’s cap is a wonderfully behaved, beautiful groundcover that simply lights up these spots with delicate flowers each spring.

Welcome spring with a profusion of cheery blooms! ‘Georgia Blue’ creeping Veronica is a gorgeous, hardy, early spring bloomer that’s great for rock gardens or creating drifts of bright color. (Even better: It repeats its flower show in fall!)

Got dappled shade? Then try Allegheny spurge. This clump-forming groundcover has fantastic foliage to lighten up tough garden spaces, as well as cinnamon-scented springtime flowers that beckon gardeners to spend a little more time taking it easy in the shade.

Looking to fill a shady spot with easy-to-care-for drifts of color? Try foamflower! This tough but dainty beauty works in just about any level of shade to give you waves of color that’ll awaken your woodland garden each spring!

If you’ve got shady spots in your yard, chances are you’ve got room for these great native groundcovers. Not only do they love shade, they’re pretty drought-tolerant, can take care of themselves and are gorgeous to boot!

Southern gardens are defined by Liriope, a gorgeous grasslike perennial with tiny, pretty summer blooms. With all sorts of varieties available, it shouldn’t be hard to find the perfect one to add to your own borders, flower beds or ground-covered area for a touch of Southern style.

Looking for a tough plant that can work in all kinds of difficult spots? Give low-growing sedums a try. Not only do these succulent beauties survive tricky garden spots, they look great doing it – and without much water!

Partridgeberry is a beautiful, low-growing, shade-loving groundcover that you can enjoy in your garden year-round. But come the holidays, you can easily transform this outdoor beauty into a traditional holiday decoration: the partridgeberry bowl.

Looking for a great shade groundcover (or a neat little perennial to pop into your garden)? Try a splendid ginger! This tough, reliable evergreen brings interest to small spaces (or even containers). Learn more about how this Chinese wild ginger can prove its merits in your shade garden.

Whether you’re interested in woodland gardens or just have a tough shady spot in your yard that’s calling for help, wild ginger may be the plant for you. It’s lush, green leaves work hard to fill in difficult areas and make your garden shine all season long!