Shade Gardening: Ideas for container next to front door:, 1 by karenM

karenM wrote:
There's a space next to my front door on the left (see below) which is 18" x 43". While the blue planter box to the right gets a few hours of morning sun, this spot gets none, as it faces northeast. I'd like to put a container there with some kind of attractive evergreen vine or vertical shrub or something! which looks nice, maybe smells good, and won't grow out too far to obstruct the entry into the door. In the photo, it shows a maidenhair fern I had there awhile, but it bit the dust in one of our few hard frosts last year, with a little neglect thrown in ;^(

Any ideas? Thanks, Karen.