Like, shade or dappled shade? My front yard faces pure north, and has a west side garage so it doesn't get that much afternoon sun on most of the yard. I have a few places that get less than 2 hours of full sun a day.. and less in the winter (of course, RIGHT in front of the garage door.. so that it stays a sheet of ice for most of the winter.. BLEH). I don't mean to be going over the same thing over & over again, but I've found out the hard way that my thoughts on shade and other people's thoughts of shade can be two different shades. I mean a place that gets NO sun pretty much. I call this my Dark Corner and I usually have coleuses (annuals) & shade perennials (hostas, spiderwort) there. There's sweet williams, columbines.. the astibles croaked (they were bad to begin with). That stupid big plant in the middle is a mottled elderberry that was supposed to be get only like 2-3'.. and it's almost 7' tall now, so it's coming out this spring once the ground thaws. I actually have to prop the darned thing up with some fishing line. It grew over 5' this past year. This is the more mature corner. Bleh. It gets morning dappled shade, which is why the elderberry shows the variegation.
