Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
Definitely a good shade plant! I have only one variety thus far and it gets quite large. It will form a colony in no time -- if you don't want that, just remove the clump of berries that develop after it blooms.
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.