Hosta 'Devon Green'
plantain lily
- Position: cool shade
- Soil: best growth results are achieved in moist, fertile soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: pale lilac flowers appear in August and last for several weeks
- Other features: foliage cuts well for floral arrangement
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Almost exclusively shade-lovers, Hostas are principally grown for their valuable foliage detail over the spring and summer months. Their planting versatility enables use as ground cover in a border, or as an understorey to shrubby plantings, or equally they make handsome specimens to grace a garden planter. Hosta 'Devon Green' is a chance sport of Hosta 'Halcyon', forming dense, medium sized hummocks of heart-shaped leaves. Being dark in colour, their highly glossy surface throws into relief the distinct mid rib veining. Lily-like flowers of pale lilac appear in high summer. - Garden care:Surround plants with a ring of crushed eggshells to offer protection from slug damage.
Asarum europaeum
wild ginger
Lustrous foliage for a shady corner
Matteuccia struthiopteris
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Fabulous, large, shuttlecock fern
Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Alba'
bleeding heart (syn. Dicentra spectabilis Alba)
Arching sprays of delicate, heart-shaped white flowers
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