Pacific Northwest Gardening: My garden under a big pine, 5 by Pistil

Pistil wrote:
It's the dog days of summer, so everything is a bit toasted. The only things blooming are the orange daylily and orange Alstroemeria, but it is nice to have a bit of color!

So far-the MOST bombproof plants there are the Epimedium and Sedum 'Angelina', daylily, digitalis lutea, Hellebore, and Iris cristata.
If you were planting under a conifer and plan not to water beyond the first year plant either Angelina or the Epimedium.

Jury still out on others not yet well established like the Iris foetidissima var lutea.