Comptonia peregrina, commonly known as sweet fern for its fragrant, lustrous, fern-like foliage, is a super hardy shrub for terrible, infertile soils.

Cyclamen coum is a delicate shady perennial with charming pink flowers and often mottled heart-shaped leaves.

Cyclamen coum 'Album' has white flowers atop heart-shaped, dark green leaves that are often marbled with pale green or silver.

Cyclamen coum 'Christmas Tree Group' has dramatically variegated silver foliage with green Christmas tree-like centres.

Cyclamen coum 'Maurice Dryden' has white flowers atop superlative leaves with green edges and red undersides

Cyclamen coum 'Porcelain' is a lovely seed strain with white flowers with magenta eyes and delicate purple veins.

Cyclamen coum 'Selected Red Form' is a seed strain with deepest magenta flowers.

Cyclamen coum 'Silver Leaf' has lovely magenta to pink flowers glimmering over the silver leaves.

Cyclamen graecum is valued for its variety of leaf forms and markings making it popular with collectors.

Cyclamen graecum 'Album' has pure white flowers. The species is valued for its wide range of leaf markings.

Cyclamen graecum 'Glyfada' is a very special seed strain with completely silver or almost completely silver leaves.

Cyclamen hederifolium is a shady perennial with charming pink flowers atop ivy-shaped, dark green, often marbled leaves.

Cyclamen hederifolium 'Album' has charming white flowers atop ivy-shaped, dark green often marbled leaves.

Cyclamen hederifolium 'Arrow Leaf' offers distinctive foliage in the shape of arrows with pink or white flowers.

Cyclamen hederifolium 'Red Sky' is a superb strain with glowing magenta-red flowers.

Cyclamen hederifolium 'Silver Leaf' has sculptured silver leaves that illuminating the winter shade garden.

Cyclamen purpurascens is the hardiest of the species surviving even in zone 5!