Shade Gardening: Goat's Beard vs Astilbe, 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
The barren strawberry(small yellow flowers) looks especially attractive next to native blue wood phlox (phlox divaricata and white flowered native sedum ternatum.
Also pictured are Tiarella, bluets (Houstonia caerulea) wild ginger (Asarum canadense) and violets.
What I tried to do in this section was to have an early spring display, similar to the standard non native daffs underplanted with grape hyacinth and other small early bulbs, using plants (mostly) native to my area.The Fothergilla shrub (Southeast US native) with the fragrant white bottle brush flowers and the hostas are not.