Shade Gardening: Need ideas for a shady bed, 1 by Noreaster

Noreaster wrote:
Thank you all!

jachurch, I discovered that Jack Frost this summer and I am in love with it. I have mine in a hypertufa planter that I made and have been wondering if I can leave it in the container thru the winter or if I should take it out now and plant it in the ground..the container plantings still look so nice that I hate to take it apart, but I really don't want to lose that plant...what should I do? The container would be too difficult to move indoors. I also have a lady fern in there, and the rest are annuals.

I love that peach daylily, too, and it's great to know that they do ok without a lot of sun. My daylilies are off to the left of this bed...this little strip gets the most sun of my entire backyard. I don't have room for something as large as a hydgrangea in this area, BUT I have been driving around, coveting all the beautiful local hydrangeas in my area, so I will figure out how to work one into the other side of my backyard- next year's project.

Here is the area with my daylilies, which aren't any special variety that I know of...they were growing in the middle of that group of stuff I cleared out to make the raised bed, and I like them.