Shade Gardening: Tour of my backyard, 1 by lupinelover

lupinelover wrote:
The lighting on this one is pretty bad, but this is standing halfway down the Bunny trail, at the newest path. To the front of the new path, where the light is so bright, is a big area that had been mainly hostas. They are greatly reduced in number and size now, and there are many heucheras and heucherellas and tiarellas and a few astrantias in there. Also some hellebores and a couple astilbes, some phlox, and several ferns. On the other side of the new path you can see the foliage of my buckeye bottle brush bush (try saying that fast 3 times!), underplanted with hostas, more foxgloves, primroses, and more astilbes. Ostrich ferns have been turned loose, and they are very well-behaved in this bed. The trees are mostly hickory in this area, a few mature ones, and some sapling elms (I think).