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    Bowles’ golden sedge

    Carex elata 'Aurea'

    This beautiful sedge's vivid foliage adds bright color to the garden.

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    Japanese holly fern

    Cyrtomium falcatum

    Spreading, glossy, dark green fronds reach a length of 8 to 24 inches.

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    ‘Korean Gold’ plum yew

    Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Korean Gold'

    This slow-growing dwarf conifer has a wide, rounded crown and narrowly furrowed, partially peeling bark.

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    Blue cohosh

    Caulophyllum thalictroides

    This plant's three-lobed, veined leaves are dark purple when they emerge and later turn green.

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    ‘River Nile’ Rex begonia

    Begonia 'River Nile'

    Unlike other Rex begonias, 'River Nile' isn't flashy.

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    Gold-dust plant

    Aucuba japonica 'Variegata'

    The dense, glossy foliage of this evergreen plant is splattered with yellow.

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    ‘Tasmanian Angel’ bear’s breeches

    Acanthus mollis 'Tasmanian Angel'

    With their white margins and mottling, the jagged leaves of 'Tasmanian Angel' are a real showshopper, and in late summer, 3-foot-tall, pink-and-cream flower stalks heighten the effect.

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    Goatsbeard

    Aruncus dioicus

    Goatsbeard is a perennial native to eastern North America and parts of Europe and Siberia.

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    Japanese painted fern

    Athyrium niponicum var. pictum

    This fern has cool, gray-green, almost silvery foliage and reddish-purple stalks that are useful for brightening dark spots in borders.

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    Coast leucothoe

    Leucothoe axillaris

    This slow-growing, weeping evergreen shrub has a low and wide form and oval, leathery, toothed dark green leaves.