Specialty Gardening: Vines and tall plants, 0 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
For dainty, delicate foliage, you can't beat cosmos, which would love your warm weather conditions and reseeds happily.

Also for sun: Another one is feverfew, a chrysanthemum-like plant whose foliage is a bright chartreuse green. Tagetes lemonii is a tall shrub with marigold-like flowers that grows very fast.
Bidens bipinnata has lacy-like foliage.

For shade: dicentra would work. I like to use variegated plants in the shade, it brightens things up remarkably. Aucuba, oxalis, vinca minor 'Illumination' and 'Jack Frost' brunnera are in a bed with a soaker hose and very happy.

Again for sun: Alyssum will reseed also. Parsley, plain old Italian flat-leaf, is actually a very pretty plant that I've let reseed in my garden's south bed - nice fresh bright green lacy foliage. Flowers are subtle but pretty - in the photo here, they are leaning on a "Yellow Wave" phormium (New Zealand flax) and matching nicely against it.