Shade Gardening: Extremely shady , 3 by Pistil

Pistil wrote:
hi Gourdbeader-
I garden near Seattle, so just a tad colder in the winter, cooler in summer. In general I would say pick lighter colors in shade, dark leaves or flowers are not very visible. Some ideas for easy care plants:
Shrub: Choisya ternata 'sundance' grows slowly and evenly in deep shade. Foliage glows year-round but it hardly flowers. absolutely trouble free. Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis. A shady botanical garden near Seattle has a Paeonia lutea (I think var Ludlowii) that blooms in shade. It is quite tall about 7 feet. I am growing one in shade- it is now about 6 feet and has lovely leaves. it hasn't bloomed yet they say it takes years.
Annual flowers for color:Impatiens bloom all summer. Nicotiana sylvestris, N. langsdorfii are tall, smell nice-may reseed or winter over.
Groundcover: Epimediums but watch out some of the new Chinese fancy ones want to be coddled apparently. E. davidii yellow blooms all summer for me.
Perennials:Aruncus, Astilbe, Cimifuga, Foxgloves (pick your color they will naturalize), Hellebore hybrids (pick your color at the nursery in early spring), Hosta (pick slug resistant varieties), Iris foetidissima (I just bought lutea-yellow flowers, red berries that persist). I am trying daylilly Hemerocallis fulva 'Flore Pleno' this year, said to bloom in shade we shall see. Geranium phaeum 'Lily Lovell', Geranium macrorrhizum (several colors to choose from). I have lots of slugs so some traditional shade recommendations don't work for me like Brunnera. I have even tried some Daffodils that have a nice smell and could not keep the slugs away!
Bulbs: Erythronium, some daffodils, snowdrops
Grass:Japanese forest grass grows slowly-'Aureola' matches the Choisya shrub. Carex 'Ice Dance' also matches.
Vines: A few Clematis will do ok in shade, but NOT all. Try "The President' or 'Hagley Hybrid'. I have C. viticella 'Blue Angel' in dry shade. It survives and even flowers a bit.
what fun you will have! Please give us pictures as you proceed. I love watching these kind of projects.

pic#1 a foxglove pic#2 Choisya 'Sundance' pic#3 Iris cristata 'Abbey's Violet' is a PNW Coast hybrid that Edelweiss Perennials says does well in shade(only for PNW gardens).