Shade Gardening: Combining dry shade plants with moist shade plants, 1 by bugme

bugme wrote:
Zone5, someone may correct me on this but, the plants you listed are water-hungry ones.......ferns and astilbe especially. I've just completed a shady area and have hostas, hellebores, brugs, a foxglove and hydrangea....planted in the ground.....not in containers. It seems that container plants require more water than when in the ground. A soaker hose was added and mulch placed on top. The light is enough for the brugs and hydrangea to bloom. I'll post a pic to show you.