ACTAEA racemosa $10.95 5’ x 2’ z3 Snakeroot Long, wonky, bottlebrush spikes of creamy-white flowers in midsummer atop ferny foliage on this native bottlebrush. The first snakeroot to bloom here. The flower spikes don't even try to grow straight, but wander off sideways, like drunken candelabra and persist over a goodly long period. Native. Scented, but stinky, though I find the odour strangely interesting. Fetching foliage, attractive seed heads, long bloom season and a commanding architectural form. Grow in moist soil in sun to part shade. Photo: Source ACTAEA simplex ‘White Pearl’ $10.95 4' x 3' z 3 Kamchatka Snakeroot (syn. Cimicifuga simplex ‘White Pearl’) Tall bottle-brush flowers of creamy-white with an unusual scent soar above light green, lacy leaves. Flowers just after A.racemosa – about midsummer. Eye-catching. Easy to grow in part shade and moist soil. Will form a large, pest and disease resistant, attractive clump. Photo: Wild Things ACTAEA pachypoda $12.95 36" x 24" z3 Doll’s Berry Small, scented globular white flowers in late-spring. Showy white poisonous berries with black eyes on thick red stalks in autumn. Beautiful all-season foliage. Native for the shady woodland garden. Underrated and under-used. Berries are poisonous. Photo: Source ACTAEA ramosa ‘Hillside Black Beauty’ $25.95 4'-5' z 4 Black Snakeroot Scented, white bottlebrush-flowers tower above black ferny foliage in late summer. This plant is stunning grown in moist soil and part shade. The flowers open from pink buds and their deliciously fruity fragrance can be detected from a good distance away. The foliage is dramatically beautiful all season. Here, the flowers open just before Labour Day and continue into October. Photo courtesy Walters Gardens, Inc. www.wild-things.ca 6 1-877-538-3228