Shade Gardening: Good shade plant combinations, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Our backyard is almost entirely shaded by a huge silver maple and a slowly dying walnut. We ringed both trees with concrete block walls, threw in some compost, and are seeing what can survive under these challenging conditions. Here under the walnut, spring nasturtiums make a lush look. The helichrysum succumbed to a cold winter, and the callas have struggled, either from the walnut's allelopathy or just the fact it sucks up moisture from the soil.

The Tropicanna canna is doing very well, but the cytisus (broom) has had a hard time this summer with our drought.