shade loving shrubs?

[janeyo]

Our front garden has patches that don't get a lot of sun. The sun has gone by lunchtime.There is a large circle cut out of the lawn (the mossery I should say) that needs filling with something as I dug out all the dead roses when we moved in. They didn't look very healthy!

I need some suggestions for shade tolerating shrubs, one big one for the middle then smaller things around. It's also on a slope, very stony and dry.

If I go to the garden centre without some ideas I will end up buying plants I WANT to grow there instead of the ones that will do well

Thanks, janeyo

[FionaH]

Skimmia are ok in shade as are some euphorbia.

[janeyo]

Thanks

I have been making a list... can add euphorbia to it.

So far I have: Hosta, Acer, Hydrangea, Hypericum, Rhododendron, and your suggestions!

Looks like I have swalowed a dictionary, lol

janeyo

[kentvegplot]

What about fatsia japonica? It looks quite exotic and is tough as old boots. Evergreen and glossy.

[nick the grief]

Or how about Ferns - I noticed that one of the better local suppliers has loads of them in at the moment for about �1 each in 3" pots then you add some English Bluebells, Snowdrops and Anemones for spring. Honey suckle will do OK in shade as well as it's a woodland plant and Mahonia is another.