Shade Gardening: midsummer in the shade, 1 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
Thanks, guys. I agree he would look awful in full sun. Foliage as well as flowers. The plumes on my shrub are beginning to wilt now, so the show's about done for this summer. But prior to the flowers actually opening, the bloom season is extended for several weeks by the dramatic growth & unfurling of the flowers. Now it will sort of fade into obscurity. But now my Adina rubella has started flowering. The trick is to have an assortment of plants which can each take over the blooming job to keep the woodland show going. Admittedly, there are sometimes some lag times, but it's pretty surprising to see that there's usually something blooming.
My adina has odd 'sputnik' like flowers. They're hard to photograph (#1). There are actually a multitude of flowers, but I can't get more than 1 in focus at a time (#2). But I now realize I have no pictures of the foliage, which is pretty all summer. It's a fine narrow leaf with a striking shine to it. There's a part of a leaf seen in #3.