Add some class to your shade landscape with some of the nicest foliage your garden will ever lay eyes on. How can you not be smitten when you take a look at these leathery, emerald green, heart shaped leaves generously splashed with silver blotches that form a tight, rounded mound. Its foliage emerges early in the spring then thin stalks rise above its neat mound bearing small buds that open to a cloud of azure blue flowers from mid May to mid June. The fluttering flowers add great contrasting texture to the thick, leathery foliage and are like a beacon in the shade landscape. ‘Emerald Mist’ will look great alone but is even more powerful in a group in the forefront of the shade garden where you can admire its foliage long after its bloom has faded.