Beginner Gardening: Need advice on what to do with dry, no light spot, 1 by green_willow

green_willow wrote:
Thanks for all the great suggestions! Missingrosie, I am going to think hard about your suggestions for a gazing pool. There is an enormous one at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with a fish, that I could use for inspiration.. Hey I found a photo. Isn't this wonderful?

On the ivy: Yes, I have seen Boston ivy growing here. I guess my mind went straight to English ivy which I saw growing in the winter in Salt Lake City and that I was so surprised and so envious of... In any case, the spot really is too dry and too dark for any kind of ivy, I'm afraid.