This section is from the book "The Complete Garden", by Albert D. Taylor. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Garden.
This group contains plants which are excellently adapted to the same kind of soil and the same kind of treatment as are the types of rhododendrons and azaleas with which they are used. Many of these plants such as the lilies, hypericums, and some others, provide flowers during a portion of the season when the large shrubs are not in flower.
Aronia arbutifolia Red Chokeberry
Asarum canadense
Wild Ginger Chamaedaphne calyculata
Leather-leaf
Cotoneaster horizontalis Prostrate Cotoneaster
Erythronium (in variety)
Adder's-tongue Fern (in variety)
Fern.
Galax aphylla Galax
Goodyera pubescens Rattle-snake Plantain
Helonias bullata Swamp-pink
Houstonia caerulea Bluet
Hypericum calycinum Aaron's Beard
Hypericum moserianum Gold-flower
Ilex glabra Inkberry
Ledum groenlandicum Labrador Tea
Leiophyllum (in variety) Mountain Heath
Leucothoe catesbaei Catesby's Andromeda
Lilium canadense Wild Yellow Lily
Lilium pardalinum Panther Lily
Lilium speciosum Japanese Lily
Lilium superbum Turks' Cap Lily
Lilium tenuifolium Siberian Coral Lily
Mertensia virginica Bluebell
Mitchella repens Partridge Berry
Pachysandra terminalis Japanese Spurge
Pieris (in variety) Fetterbush
Pyxidanthera barbulata Flowering Moss
Rhodora canadensis Rhodora
Shortia galacijolia Shortia
Taxus canadensis Ground Yew
Trillium (in variety) Wake Robin
Vinca minor Periwinkle
Vinca minor alba White Periwinkle
Viola (in variety) Violet
Xanthorrhiza apiifolia Yellow-root
 
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