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Plant GuideBigleaf aster
Aster macrophyllusThis striking, richly-textured, deciduous ground cover has heart-shaped leaves that turn mauve in autumn.
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Plant GuideEastern foam flower
Tiarella cordifoliaThis native North American species has pale green heart-shaped leaves which develop bronze highlights in the autumn.
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Plant GuideThalictrum minus
Thalictrum minusThis perennial species is one of the most delicate of Thalictrums, with tiny foliage reminiscent of maidenhair ferns.
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Plant GuideThalictrum kiusianum
Thalictrum kiusianumThis garden gem forms a 6-inch-high mat of dainty, ferny foliage, and is perfect for a trough or a lightly shaded nook in a rock garden.
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Plant GuideStrawberry geranium
Saxifraga stoloniferaThis plant is a rosette-forming evergreen perennial with kidney-shaped to rounded leaves.
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Plant GuideSmall Solomon’s seal
Polygonatum biflorumFrom late spring into summer, this species bears tubular greenish-white flowers that dangle underneath the arching stems.
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Plant GuideAllegheny spurge
Pachysandra procumbensThis clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial has long prostrate stems and pewter-green foliage.
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Plant GuideYellow archangel
Lamium galeobdolon
This rhizomatous perennial has erect or creeping stems and silvery leaves.
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Plant GuideBusy Lizzie
Impatiens walleriana cvs.This subshrubby perennial with light green to red-flushed stems has slightly toothed, scalloped, light to bronze-green or red-flushed leaves to 5 inches long.
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Plant GuideAutumn fern
Dryopteris erythrosora
In spring, autumn fern’s fronds unfurl a copper red, then turn to bronze, and finally become a shiny dark green.
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