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s.com Ornata wrote:
All the following do well in my garden on heavy clay soil
in an area that gets little or no sun (I'm aware that some
of these probably flower better with more sun but they
still do a good job in shade):
Astilbes (as long as the soil doesn't dry out)
Tricyrtis (lots of different varieties, some of them not
more than 2 feet)
Digitalis x mertonensis
Anemone x hybrida
Bergenia (also good for winter colour)
Helleborus x hybridus and Helleborus foetidus (there are
varieties with lovely, pewetery foliage)
Various Primula (e.g. P. denticulata, candelabra hybrids)
Cyclamen hederifolium and C. coum (for autumn/winter
flowers and beautifully marked, silvery foliage)
Arum italicum ssp italicum (for foliage marbled with
white, and late summer spikes of orange berries)
Brunnera macrophylla Jack Frost

Some great suggestions here, thanks! I'm particularly taken
by the toad lilies, especually given their late summer
flowering time.

Rhiannon

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