Achillea 'Coronation Gold' is an award-winning yarrow with masses of flat-topped, golden yellow flowers.

Aconitum 'Cloudy' is a gorgeous bicolour monkshood with blue and white flowers.

The tall stems and purple-blue flowers of the monkshood Aconitum 'Arendsii' offer a substitute for Delphinium for shadier conditions.

Aconitum 'Royal Flush' has spires of purple-blue monkshood flowers preceded by luscious chocolate-red new growth.

Aconitum fischeri is a shorter monkshood to two feet with purple-blue flowers.

Japanese monkshood, Aconitum japonicum, has wonderful, hooded purple-blue flowers in summer on arching stems.

Aconitum lamarckii (syn. pyrenaicum) is an unusual monkshood with long airy racemes of pale sulphur yellow tubular flowers.

Aconitum napellus forms strong, vertical spires of purple-blue monkshood flowers.

Aconitum 'Album' has deeply cut ferny dark green leaves with bold white spikes of hooded monkshood flowers. Elegant.

Aconitum 'Rubellum' is a distinctly different monkshood with pretty pink flower spikes.

Aconitum 'Eleonara' has mostly white flowers with a hint of blue on the petal tips. Elegant and beguiling.

'Stainless Steel' is a unique steely blue Aconitum that makes a great spike for sun or shadier conditions.

Aconitum 'Blue Lagoon' is a dwarf monkshood with bright blue flowers.

Aconitum 'Spark's Variety' has four foot tall spikes of hooded, deep violet-blue monkshood flowers.

Actaea japonica 'Silver Dance' has wands of creamy-white bottle brush flowers and silver foliage maturing to green.

Actinidia deliciosa is a large, rampant, decidous vine that produces kiwifruit. 'Vincent' is an excellent cultivar.

Adenophora 'Gaudi Violet' is a beautiful bellflower relative with elegant spikes of light violet bell-shaped flowers.

Western maidenhair fern (Adiantum aleuticum) is a BC native and one of the most distinctive and beautiful of all ferns.

Adiantum capillus-veneris is a dainty, delicate, beautiful fern with black stems that is magic in the shade garden.

Adiantum hispidulum forms delicate fronds that emerge pink against the previous year's dark green. A unique and gorgeous fern for the shade garden.

Adiantum pedatum, the northern Maidenhair fern, is one of the most beautiful of all ferns with distinctive palmate fronds.

The evergreen Himalayan maidenhair fern, Adiantum venustum, forms delicate and elegant, slowly expanding mats.