CMK- I am usually trying to save money on plants [g], and with something I like enough to buy multiples of, I am usually just picking up more when they are at bargain prices. I try to go to a few of my favorite local plant sales in the spring every year and JPFerns have been about $4. a pot and not special cultivars. The one 'Burgundy Lace' that I have, I did buy at a nursery in the fall for 50% off it's $16. original price and I'm happy I did. I have seen most of the cultivars mentioned here and I think 'Burgundy Lace' appealed to me the most. I think it is more silver than the Pictum for sure. I am a big fan of 'Ghost' and I have at least three of those already. It is very vigorous and well behaved and I enjoy it. I like the color, although I wouldn't describe it as white or pale at all. I have a lot of shade in my garden, but a lot of Maple tree roots and so my 'shade' gardens are still not what I want them to be. I keep working on the soil and adding more plants every year, experimenting a lot to find perennials that will tolerate dry shade. I have a bed surrounding a Bloodgood Japanese Maple with burgundys and golds too. I do have some JPFerns there with the silver in them and they do seem to work fine to me. Two plants I might mention for those tones, I added a 'Fire Island' Hosta last year and that is quite gold/yellow. And I just planted a 'Frosted Violet' Heuchera under the Bloodgood and they really complement each other.

I have several Japanese Painted Ferns around a small Japanese Maple that get sun in the afternoon and they are thriving. The amount of sun depends on the time of the year, but I think it ranges from 3 to 5 hours. I do make sure the maple is well watered, so this helps the ferns too.

Jacqui My daughter just moved into a new house with nothing in her yard except grass and bark and a few homedepot cheapo inappropriato plantos, so I would love to trade some of my plants for yours for her. I'm interested in both some of the the blue fescues and the ferns and from your trade list maybe the lavender (what type is it?)....... From your want list I have some plants that i can dig/divide and get ready for you: anemones (white)--'Whirlwind' and 'Honorine Jobert' varigated sweet flag shamrock euphorbia characias and amydaloides salvia forskoahlei creeping phlox tall phlox--light purple and maybe white Please let me know but if possible please respond to my old regular email: jbracik (at) msn.com thanks PNW Judy now aka 'plantknitter'

Flowering perennials ANEMONE flaccida Spreading, white flowers, spotted leaves ANEMONE keiskeiana Summer dormant, white flowers, mottled foliage ANEMONE nemorosa `Bracteata` Double white flowers, with green and white bracts ANEMONE pseudoaltaica NE Asia, white or blue, spreading, well-drained, humus, shade ANEMONE ranunculoides `Flore Pleno` Double yellow flowers ANEMONE seemannii Creeping hybrid of A. nemerosa and A. ranunculoides, large cream/sulphur flowers ANEMONE stolonifera Japan, white, dissected leaves, creeping AQUILEGIA desertorum Arizona columbine, 18" x 15", red and yellow AQUILEGIA formosa Red Spur columbine, 24" x 18", bright red BEGONIA grandis `Alba` BEGONIA grandis 'Heron's Pirouette' BEGONIA grandis ssp. evansiana 'Wildwood Purity 18 x 18, hardy if mulched; the last slightly larger CARDIANDRA alternifolia Japan, small hydrangea relative, 18 x 24, late pink flowers CORYDALIS malkensis Caucasus, white, early, humus, partial shade, moist CORYDALIS ochroleuca Italy, Greece; ferny leaves, long-flowering, yellowish white CORYDALIS ornata SE Russia, sky-blue to white, partial shade, not too dry CORYDALIS paczoskii Ukraine, mauve, humus, moist, shade CORYDALIS vittae Caucasus, white, partial shade, humus EPIMEDIUM acuminatum 12 x 18, marbled foliage, purple when new, with lilac sepals and lavender petals EPIMEDIUM pubigerum 12-24 x 12-24, yellowish flowers EPIMEDIUM sutchuenense Spreading; white sepals, red petals, mottled foliage EPIMEDIUM x omeiense 'Akane' 12", purple red flowers with yellow spurs [additional epimediums from elsewhere in the garden] ERINUS alpinus `Albus` ERINUS alpinus `Carmineus` Fairy foxglove, Alps, 4 x 4, flowers May, reseeds into crevices. ERYTHRONIUM ÂWhite Beauty Dogtooth violet, clumping, white and yellow flowers, mottled foliage KEISKEIA japonica var. hondoensis White flowers, 24-36", late summer PINELLIA cordata ÂYamazaki PINELLIA pedatisecta PINELLIA tripartite China, 9 x 9 aroids POLLIA japonica Stoloniferous, 18  24 x indef., ginger-like foliage with heads of many small white flowers, then black berries PRIMULA daoensis Rhaetian Alps, 4 x 6, rosy pink, moist, humus, part shade PRIMULA kisoana ÂAlba Spreading, 4" scalloped hairy leaves, white flowers, shade PRIMULA kisoana var. shikokiana Pink flowers, loose woodsy soil THALICTRUM filamentosum var. tenerum NE Asia, 12", white, July, humus, shade THALICTRUM lucidum Shining Meadow Rue, 48-60 x 12, fragrant, yellow TRACHYSTEMON orientalis NE Turkey, 24 x 36, fuzzy foliage, blue purple panicles in spring TRAUTVETTERIA carolinensis Native to both US coasts, 15 x 24 foliage, white flowers to 5 ft., moist, shaded TRAUTVETTARIA japonica Short, white, like Thal.fil., moist, well-drained, shade TRICYRTIS formosana 24-36 x 18 TRICYRTIS perfoliata 18 x 10, yellow TRICYRTIS Seiryu 24", mat-forming TRIOSTEMON himalayanum Zhongdien Plateau, 30 x 36, light shade, greenish-yellow flowers, red fruit VIOLA ÂPartly Cloudy Variegated form of unknown species, East Coast, a Darrell Probst selection VIOLA odorata ÂAlba Plena Fragrant, fully double, spreads by runners YPSILANDRA thibetica Evergreen rosettes to 5 x 5, white spikes in late winter to 8", part shade, humus