Cast-Iron Plant

Cast-Iron Plant is popular evergreen garden plant in Japan. This plant is very easy to grow in shaded area; it needs almost no care at all. Cast-Iron Plant often used as ground cover or pot plant. In Japan we call this plant as “Haran (葉蘭)” and often used cut leaves for decorating Japanese foods especially sushi and sashimi.

Japanese Sweet Flag

Japanese Sweet Flag is perennial grass like plant. This plant prefers to grow in wet areas even though it can grow regular garden if you give it plenty of water everyday. The leaves of Japanese Sweet Flag are about 30cm (one foot) long and some cultivars are available. Japanese Sweet Flag spreads with its rhizomes densely so this plant is used as a ground cover of wet area.

Sacred Lily

Sacred Lily is popular plant in Japan and we enjoy this plant by developing its leaves in several color patterns even though the red berries of this plant are also attractive as you can see on the picture. We call Sacred Lily as “Omoto (万年青)” in Japan and the meaning of the Kanji letters is green for ten thousands year because Sacred Lily is evergreen perennial plant. This plant is not popular in USA but it is good as ground covers or as foliage plant.

English Ivy

English Ivy is not native plant of USA but by its invasive character, this Ivy is very popular in the states which face Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. English Ivy is a evergreen plant so when it climb up some old building it create some kind of good atmosphere, but when it climb up a big tree, it usually kill the tree in several years. So if you plant this Ivy, you need careful planning and attention for growing this plant.

Here you can find more detail information for English Ivy.

Leaves of Leaves of Japanese Holly Fern

Japanese Holly Fern is dark green evergreen beautiful fern and good for house plant. It forms 60cm (2 feet) height and 90cm (3 feet) width round mound and like partial shade or full shaded area.

Scouring Rush

Scouring Rush grows up to 1.2m (4feet) in the area of full sun and wet land. This plant has strong root system and tough for surviving and has few pest and disease problems.

Lamb's Ear

This fuzzy leaves plant is Lamb’s Ear. Lamb’s Ear is planted for the sake of this fuzziness and used as ground cover.

This perennial plant has strong invasive tendency by spreading seeds profusely so you need special attention when planning to plant Lamb’s Ear.

Sacred Lily

Sacred Lily is evergreen clumps and easy to take care of it. You can plant Sacred Lily in shaded area or partially shaded area and don’t need any attention after that. This plant has red berries in fall through winter.

Big Blue Lily Turf

Big Blue Lilyturf is easy to grow plant. This plant grow well in both area; full sun and shade area. They have purple flower in summer. Big Blue Lily Turf is usually used as ground cover.

Japanese Silver Grass

Japanese Silver Grass is very popular wild grass in Japan. We call this tall grass as “susuki (薄)”.