Rippling Waters Organic Farm

Promoting Community Food Security
through Education, Service & Action

Farm, Greenhouse & Community Gardens
55 River Road, Steep Falls, Maine 04085
(207) 642-5161             greengrower@ripplingwaters.org
Shade-loving Perennials
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Botanical Name

Common
Name
Height Color Bloom
Time

Deer

Notes/Soil
Alchemilla Lady's Mantle tall   late spring   foliage
Anemone* Windflower  medium  mix  spring    
Aquilegia* Columbine medium mixed spring 4 native
Astilbe* False spirea medium reds, pinks
purples
late spring 2 cut
Campanula* Bellflower short
medium
blue shades late spring 3 some cut
native
Dicentra* Bleeding Heart tall white, pink spring 2 native
Digitalis* Foxglove tall yellow, pink summer 2 cut
Doronicum Leopard's Bane medium yellow spring 4 daisy-like
Heuchera* Coral Bells medium pinks summer 3  
Hosta Funkia medium purple flowers
yellow tip leaves
summer 5  
Lobelia* Cardinal flower (red) tall red, blue, burgundy late summer 4  
Myostis* Forget-me-nots medium blue spring 3  
Polemonium Jacob’s Ladder medium blue late spring 3 some sun
Polyanthus* Primrose medium mixed spring 3 rich, moist
Tiarella foam flower medium white summer 1 rich, moist
* can have some sun.
Deer Codes:  1=Note Eaten;  2=Seldom Eaten;  3=Occasionally Eaten;  4=Usually Eaten;  5=Always Eaten
 


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Last updated:  February, 2008