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In choosing smaller plants of perennial herbaceous character muchcare should be taken to avoid weedy species or those without someespecially worth-while characteristic. There are many native formswhich are valuable for their green foliage alone, such as the Christmasfern, which is evergreen also, the ostrich fern, Clayton's fern, and the maidenhair fern. Among the valuable asters are several whichbloom profusely during the late summer and autumn months whenother woodland flowers are scarce. The old-fashioned dead nettle,which does not sting, and its variegated leaved variety, provideflowers from May to September, when colonized in moist shade,and the goldenrods also, such as the blue-stemmed and the varietycalled speciosa, enliven the woods from August to October. Amongthe plants which will be found valuable for forming mats of groundcover and some of which are evergreen in character are the money-wort, English ivy, running strawberry-bush, spotted wintergreen, andthe dwarf cornus or bunchberry. |
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