Specialty Gardening: Plants that show good Fall foliage color , 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
Pagancat,
You're welcome. But it wasn't me suggesting the Anemone japonica because I've been trying to rid the garden of them for years and finally think I've succeeded. They were too aggressive .

DonnaMack, and all others interested here are some of my favorites for the partial sun to shade garden. 1.Heuchera "Green Spice" - leaves variegated with silvery white (good easy plant), tiarella -white flowers and repeat bloomer if deadheaded (easy),............2. Allegheny spurge(this is our own native pachysandra and a far superior gentle ground cover that doesn't overwhelm and look like plastic like the Asian variety) with white spring flowers and variegated leaves-green and silvery white(easy),...............3.rue anemone (anemonella thalictroides) delicate white blooms and beautiful short colombine like leaves that last the season,............4.hepatica acutiloba &americana- 2 kinds sharp and rounded leaf- both with white and sometimes pink flowers,............ 4.iris cristata-native shade iris small purple or white flowers with short strappy leaves that will spread moderately as a ground cover,..........5. bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) white daisy flowers with amazing leaves that start out reddish and grow taller when the flowers fall and if watered and kept cool and shaded look like small waterlily leaves and last all season,........6.Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) green and white and sometimes maroon hooded flowers and later clump of red seed pods. I grow the bloodroot with the Jacks and they both spread into large clumps. together. Then there is....7. patridgeberry (Mitchela repens) a low button leaved groundcover you can use allover to grow the spring ephemerals through to mark their spot and protect them when dormant and....8. bishop's cap (Mitella diphylla) very tiny sprays of white flowers .....9. phlox-creeping(stolonifera) and wood (divaricata)- for the latter particularly the cultivar "Montrose Tricolor".......10. Dicentras- (spectabilis ) non-native spring blooming only -the white is more elegant & native (canadensis), (cucullaria),(eximia) and (formosa), the latter 2 can bloom on and off all season and the finely cut leaves remain,...........11.Jacobs Ladder (Polemonium reptans) particularly the only variegated cultivar that has lasted for me "Stairway to Heaven",......12. Hellebore, all varieties but a particularly nice cultivar is Ivory Prince.......13. ginger (Asarums) beautiful leaves.

The photo shows partridgeberry(Mitchela repens) groundcover in left corner, Dutchman's breeches( dicentra cucullaria) and Allegheny spurge in early spring.