Suggestions for planting up a damp shady border?

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Title says it all really. Apart from Hydrangea I'm a bit clueless. Anybody got any good ideas? It gets the shade for virtually all the day so quite a boggy area.

Is it actually boggy or just nice n damp?

Lots of plants will like the shade n damp - ferns, hostas, fatsia japonoica, pulminaria, hellebores, grasses, busy lizzies............ it's an easier area then a sunny dry one and I'd probably try most plants there and just see how they get on.
However if it's actually boggy - I've got no idea as never had one of those

It is really damp all the time, isn't it? Dry shade is very different. How much space have you got? If I had some really damp shade I'd plant a Gunnera, but the can get Big. Very Very Big Indeed. Think Triffid.
Otherwise as Cuppa says; if it's lightish but not sunny also a great spot for rhubarb, angelica, campanula, trillium, epimidium. You could have a go at lilly of the valley.

Thankyou both so much for responding. Sorry I've been a bit tardy coming back! I'd say it's quite damp rather than actually boggy. So you've given me some good ideas, especially the hellebores. I remember we had some in that border when we first moved in that have obviously been eaten by my maurading chickens! I'd ruled out hostas because we seem overrun with slugs and snails but then the chickens will have decimated their population so it might be worth a try. I love campanula so could have a look and thought maybe a clematis that doesn't mind shade? Thankyou so much for all the suggestions.