Shade Gardening: Help with new shade garden, 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
If the garden is 'totally in fairly deep shade' and want plants with a lot of colour and blooms, then your standing in front of an impossible task....
Even heuchera's need good light and preferably some sunshine to keep their colours and to bloom, the same for bleeding hearts.
Such a pity they don't like ferns though. But you could try to convince them at least with a good picture of a Japanese painted fern (Athryrium niponicum)