Plant Growing Guides

Acid-loving ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Osmunda)

Silver-edged Houttuynia

Houttuynia cordata 'Argenteomarginata'

British Columbia Wild Ginger

Asarum caudatum

European Wild Ginger

Asarum europaeum

Bishop's Weed

Aegopodium podagraria

Blue Cohosh

Caulophyllum thalictroides

Broad Leaf Plantain

Plantago major

Canadian Hemlock

Tsuga canadensis

Cardamine

Cardamine species

Wavy Bittercress

Cardamine flexuosa

Conocephalum conicum

Conocephalum conicum

Creeping Charlie

Glechoma hederacea

Crested Shield Fern

Polystichum setiferum

Wheki

Dicksonia squarrosa

Variegated Japanese False Solomon's Seal

Disporum sessile

Drought-tolerant native ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

Dwarf Fern

Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens (and other dwarf cultivars)

Flowering Understory Trees

Various species (e.g., Cornus, Cercis, Amelanchier, Halesia)

Fragile Fern

Cystopteris fragilis

Fragrant Fern

Dryopteris fragrans

Golden Tiara Hosta

Hosta 'Golden Tiara'

Goldie's Wood Fern

Dryopteris goldiana

Goldthread

Coptis chinensis

Goutweed Variegatum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'

Green Moss

Various species (e.g., Hypnum cupressiforme, Bryum capillare, Dicranum scoparium)

Green Shamrock

Oxalis acetosella

Halesia

Halesia carolina

Lamiastrum

Lamiastrum galeobdolon

Lamium (Dead Nettle)

Lamium spp.

Liverwort

Marchantia polymorpha

Low-growing bog ferns

Dryopteris, Polystichum, Osmunda species (varies by type)

Spotted Dead-Nettle

Lamium maculatum

Marginal Shield Fern

Dryopteris marginalis

Ostrich Fern

Matteuccia struthiopteris

Mayapple

Podophyllum peltatum

Moonshine Hosta

Hosta 'Moonshine'

Native Australian Shade Trees

Various species (see varieties)

Native Dogwood

Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood)

Native Herbaceous Plants

Various species (region-dependent)

Native Liverworts

Marchantiophyta (Division)

Native Tree Fern

Dicksonia antarctica (most common native species)

Native Tree Species

Various (region-dependent)

Nikau Palm

Rhopalostylis sapida

Nitrogen-fixing Legumes (Clover & Vetch)

Trifolium spp., Vicia spp.

Antarctic Beech

Nothofagus moorei

Ostrich Feather

Matteuccia struthiopteris

Painted Japanese Fern

Athyrium niponicum

Partridge Berry

Mitchella repens