Shade Gardening: Help me plan my plantings for this corner shade garden, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Forgive me, Rogue. Sometimes I get carried away and don't think.

Burma Joy is a red single peony. Early blooming red single peonies will bloom in the shade. The pic I showed you of the Snowflake is at NOON. I get very little sun in the part of my yard where they are. I have a towering oak and a towering maple. The light is dappled at best. This is as intense as the light gets. It's darker the rest of the time. The peony Burma Joy is in the upper left corner of pic 1). I was growing it under a huge crabapple at home. (pic 2). It bloomed anyway.

So I brought it to this darker location and got this (pic 3). So I ordered two more similar peonies to add color.

Gallica roses bloom only once, but in shade and for 6-8 weeks. Charles de Mills is one such rose. Here's Chuckie:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rosesant/msg1122024...

There is a white columbine in my yard that I just love. You have to tolerate the leaf miners but I love this guy. I also have a dicentra. The only thought is that it, like virginia bluebells, go completely dormant and disappear. So not only will you have a hole but you have to make sure you don't dig there.

But DO be careful of lily of the valley. The previous owner had them and they took over, killing everything in their path. I have removed at least 500.

And I have a bunch of ferns. They are quite wonderful. Athyrium nipponicum Ursulas Red in pic 4. It's there all season.

Under the shade of a big crabapple at my old house are the shade plants the crabapple protected from the sun, which are now even happier in my new yard. The heuchera in pic 5 is the heuchera in my new yard in pic 1.