A relatively dwarf New Zealand Rock Lily with handsome arching sword shaped leaves and produces masses of shooting star, lily-like flowers during spring and summer. Read more about Arthropodium cirrhatum ‘Te Puna’
Plants which thrive in dry shade are few and far between. Cotyledon ‘Silver Shadow’ with its intensely silver white succulent leaves lightens an otherwise gloomy corner between and under two cypresses in the dry garden. 50cm x 60cm. Read more about Cotyledon orbiculata ‘Silver Shadow’
This is one of the best groundcovers for dry shade where it will make suckering 40 cm tall evergreen stems clothed in handsome blue-green foliage. During spring the whole is covered by heads of lime green flowers. Read more about Euphorbia robbiae
Large crimped leaves form a dense evergreen foliage mound from which, during summer, wands of showy deep lilac pinks flowers are produced. Best grown in a shady spot and will grow in quite dry shade when once established. Foliage mounds 25cm tall by 45cm width. Read more about Francoa sonchifolia ‘Rogerson’s Form’
NEW A fabulous foliage plant for a shady spot even relatively dry shade or sunny when once established although it is native to the mountains of southern Mexico where it does get regular rainfall. Read more about Furcraea quicheensis
