Shade Gardening: Very durable plant for shady yard areas and dogs, 0 by palmbob

palmbob wrote:
I have been gradually putting down brick all throughout the back yard in attempt to make it 'barefoot' friendly, easy to 'clean up dog doo' and to decrease dirt/dust... as well as make the place look less messy and disorganized. I would like to grow something durable along the planter boxes and brick edges in areas like this that will get almost no direct sun ever. Moss doesnt' grow well here (summers kill it off). I need something with strong roots, so the dogs will be less like to dig it up (though some digging can't be avoided). I would prefer not to use grass, but if that's all that will work, I will try it out (grass was what was down, but pretty invasive. But at least survived, though never looked great. It rarely freezes here, but can get very hot (over 110 frequently). Any suggestions?