Asparagus officinalis 'Millennium' is a delicious perennial vegetable with purple-tipped green spears that can be harvested from year two and onward.

Asparagus officinalis 'Purple Passion' is a deliciously sweet perennial vegetable with purple spears that can be harvested from year three onward.

Hart’s tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, makes a beautiful specimen with light green undissected foliage that looks like tongues.

The lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina, is a beautiful and elegant native fern with pale green deciduous fronds.

Tatting fern (Athyrium 'Frizelliae') is a real conversation piece with its alternating, half moon shaped, fringed pinnae.

Athyrium filix-femina 'Victoriae' is a crazy fern with criss-crossing leaflets and a crested tuft at the frond tips!

Athyrium 'Pearly White' is a Japanese painted fern with silvery-grey fronds with each leaflet centred with silver-white.

Athyrium 'Regal Red' forms intense silver fronds with a red flush in the centre of each leaf along with red stems. Gorgeous.

Betula x plettkei 'Golden Treasure' Cesky Gold is a super hardy, dwarf birch with foliage emerging in yellow, orange, and red and maturing to yellow and lime green.

Blechnum niponicum is an Asian deer fern resembling B. spicant but with red-flushed new leaves.

Deer fern (Blechnum spicant) is a beautiful BC native fern for shady moist places.

Bowiea volubilis is a cool oddity with an onion-like bulb that sits on top of the soil and grows lacy climbing stems.

Caladium 'Bicolor' is a shade lover with beautiful arrow-shaped leaves of white with red and green veining.

Caladium 'Carolyn Whorton' has glossy, arrow-shaped leaves of bright pink,deep green, and bright red veins.

Caladium 'Red Bellied Tree Frog' is a dramatic foliage plant with glossy, arrow- to heart-shaped leaves filled with bright, bold pinkish red and surrounded by rich green.

Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger' is an evergreen sedge with startling, steel-blue, pleated foliage.

Carex flaccosperma, the blue wood sedge, is striking in the shade with its amazing, linear, powder blue foliage.

Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' is a beautiful sedge with broad green leaves edged with creamy white forming low, slowly spreading mounds.

Carex socialis is an evergreen sedge for evenly moist to boggy or wet sites with narrow arching foliage.