The garden gets a bit more sun then I would like since I had to have a large Hemlock taken down from the front lawn. It is about 60 feet deep and goes from about 20 feet wide in the back to about 30 in the front. The front area is almost all Hosta with some Heuchera . Then a section with about 25 Hellebore with creeping jenny throughout them, most are about 2 feet wide now. The back 2/3 of the area has Purple Winter Creeper , Houttuynia ( big mistake , but can not get rid of the stuff ), liriotrope , black mondo grass and a good size patch of Mayapples. The ferns come up through the purple winter creeper. There are a couple of Hydrangea with some Heuchera , Heucherella Tiarella and some dolls eyes mixed throughout the garden. I know most times when you read up on Hellebore they call them shade plants but mine do much better with a good amount of sun , the largest one I have is there for over 20 years and is well over 3 feet wide getting covered with flowers and this one is in my full sun garden. They do not like acid soil like many other shade plants so I give them lime every year and a good dose of fert. just as they emerge sine they are pretty heavy feeders. I use osmocote on them.
