Shade Gardening: 'Spring' (?) planting ..., 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
I found a gorgeous native geranium maculatum in my yard. It was, if you can imagine, by a chain link fence, so I moved it. It was quite large. It collapsed into pieces, so I am waiting to see what happens to the parts this spring. But it is the only one I found in my yard, and it had clearly been there for years. I have seen the same plant spreading all over the nearby trails, so I am puzzled about its failure to spread on its own.

I also inherited a very nice old fashioned dicentra (bleeding heart), next to the chain link fence (lots of people have those awful things), so I have surrounded it with ferns and an oakleaf hydrangea (notice the billion maple seedlings). I want to add mertensia to the area.

Everything beautiful that I inherited is near a chain link fence, and on the other side is my neighbor's junk - tires, garbage cans, plastic chairs and the like. There is debris that blew out of garbage cans that has been on their front parkway since last Monday. I really dislike living near people who make their junk visible from your yard. This hydrangea had not bloomed in 20 years. I moved this too. The new background is autumn joy clematis, installed by the previous owners to disguise another chain link fence. I have them all along the west side of my house.