Partial Shade - Fine Gardening

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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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    Rhododendron

    Durable 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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    Cinnamon fern

    Osmunda cinnamomea

    This deciduous fern bears shuttlecocks of lance-shaped, feathery pale green fronds.

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    Japanese wood poppy

    Glaucidium palmatum

    If you dwarfed flowering raspberry ( Rubus odoratus , Zones 3–7) and sent it to finishing school, Japanese wood poppy would be the result.

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    ‘Carolina Midnight’ loropetalum

    Loropetalum chinense f. rubrum ‘Carolina Midnight’

    With some of the darkest foliage you'll encounter in the genus Loropetalum, 'Carolina Midnight' is a great new introduction that will add some purple punch to the garden.

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    Friendship plant

    Pilea involucrata

    Friendship plant, a native of Central and South America, is easily propagated and given to friends—hence the common name.

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    Variegated fairy bells

    Disporum sessile 'Variegatum'

    This cultivar adds attractive white-striped foliage to shady areas, as well as pendent, white, bell-shaped flowers in late spring and early summer, and black berries in fall.

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    ‘Silver Shimmers’ lungwort

    Pulmonaria 'Silver Shimmers'

    This eye-catching perennial has silver-plated leaves with speckled margins.