Turk's Cap is a great shade plant because it has very showy flowers. It's hard to find shade plants that flower, especially in the summer time. There are many varieties of Turk's cap including a Ginat Turk's Cap with really large red flowers. There are several pink varieties - I have Pam Puryear Pink Turk's Cap (which I don't think blooms as well as the red variety) and there is a white variety as well. The white one would be worth having since white shows up so well in the shade. Woodlanders sells the white variety.
The Turks's Cap is on the left side of the above photograph.
So you can really see how well the red flowers show up in the shade of the pictures above and below. This plant really spreads via seed and runners. There are lots and lots of little plantlets that can be moved to other parts of the garden.
The frilly little green things in the picture below are flowers that are going to seed. They will produce a little fruit that tastes just like an apple. The fruits are edible, and they eventually dry out and the seeds drop to the ground.
Today there were dozens of Cloudless Sulphur butterflies hovering over the Turk's Cap. This seems to be a favorite of theirs.
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