Perennials: "New" gardener's new pix, 1 by ShadePlant

ShadePlant wrote:
Finally (in the back yard), the worst patch of five-by-five hell I have ever experienced. This is where the Mystery Plant sprouted before the ground was turned. It was layers of pine needles, weeds, plant debris, junk, rusty bottlecaps, rocks, rocks, and more rocks (I can't get them all out; there's still a ton more in there), dryer lint, ashes dumped by former tenants, and all on a bed of the hardest, nastiest clay you can imagine. Ugh. I thought that piece of ground might kill me, but it didn't.

Now it is home to a dwarf aruncus, lamium, H. Key Lime Pie, autumn ferns, 3 hostas, and a pretty happy fatsia japonica.

This area gets two hours of direct midday sunlight a day; just enough to scorch a shade plant, so I put up one of those fabric shade tents and everything in there is happy.