Shade Gardening: midsummer in the shade, 4 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
I found a picture of more foliage from a couple weeks ago.
But it's hard to show the entire plant, since it's sort of splayed into about 3 parts over the years. I would guess the entire plant is 8-10ft across, but with big gaps in between each of 3 portions. It's in my woods (which means 'jungle'), so I haven't crawled in amongst the exuberance of weed/vine competition to see if it has layered, suckered, or is just sprawling on the ground. Which I guess tells you how tough it is, since I shamefully ignore it and yet it thrives without complaint.
Here is another shade-tolerant shrub which I love. Frankly, I'm not a super fan of variegation, but there's a variegated deutzia which is really pretty (d. gracilis variegata). Here it is adjacent to the contrasting bold foliage of one of my bottlebrush buckeyes. Though it flowers nicely, the white flowers are pretty much lost against the prominent white variegation, so I consider it mainly a foliage plant.
Next to the deutzia is a buddleia lindleyana. I love the flowers, which droop on long racemes this time of year. But it suckers annoyingly, so I have to keep yanking suckers to keep it from overwhelming everything around it.
All of these plants are along my shady wooded driveway. I've planted hakonechloa macra Aureola along the drive also. It's been maddeningly slow to try to get them to fill in, but here's what I have so far. I love it, but wish it would fill in faster!!!