Acaena inermis 'Purpurea' is an excellent ground cover for crawling over gravel paths or stones with gorgeous purple-blue-grey foliage.

Acaena saccaticupula 'Blue Haze' is an excellent ground cover with powder blue foliage.

Alchemilla erythropoda, the dwarf lady's mantle, is a more compact version of A. mollis with blue-green leaves.

Alchemilla ellenbeckii is an unusual, creeping lady’s mantle with trailing, reddish stems with tiny leaves and electric green flowers.

Aruncus dioicus, the giant goat's beard, is a stately BC native perennial with tall, creamy white plumes.

Aruncus 'Chantilly Lace' produces lacy, branched, horizontal spikes of creamy white flowers atop Astilbe-like foliage.

Aruncus 'Guinea Fowl' is a compact and floriferous goat's beard with highly dissected, fern-like, crinkly leaves and horizontal spikes of bright white flowers on red stems.

Cydonia oblonga 'Le Borgeot', the fruiting quince, has pinkish white blossoms and yellow fruit that make amazing jelly.

Loquats (Eriobotrya japonica) are small, handsome subtropical trees with leathery, dark green leaves and delicious, deep yellow fruit.

Filipendula rubra 'Venusta' is a tall herbaceous perennial with cloud-like clusters of small, fragrant pink flowers from deep pink buds.

'Red Umbrellas' is a hybrid Filipendula with maple-like, olive green leaves with heavy red veining and umbels of pink flowers.

Fragaria x ananassa Berried Treasure 'Red' is long-blooming with semi-double red flowers and sweet fruit all summer long.

Fragaria x ananassa 'Eclair' is a Junebearing strawberry with large, sweet red fruit with a unique flavour of citrus and raspberry.

A long blooming pink-flowered strawberry for groundcover and eating.