Shade Gardening: Would like help with native shade plant suggestions, 1 by Toxicodendron

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Your pond will be nice once you get it landscaped...the woods in the background will look good. Mine has trees all around it, making it very shady...it is therefore not able to grow waterlilies and other sunlovers, but I have a lot of frogs and a couple of goldfish. It gets full of leaves in the fall and smell really bad when I clean it in the spring...but I love it anyway. The ferns you planted are beautiful, but they appear to be boston ferns which will be killed over the winter if you don't bring them in. If you can get Christmas ferns, they will stay green all winter and are quite drought-resistant. Here is a picture of my pond, which is surrounded by English Ivy, definitely not native.