advice on what to plant in soggy ground

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Our front lawn is small and surrounded by tall hedges. I'd like to get rid of the grass and replace it with gravel and plants. However , the lawn is soggy and prone to get mossy. What plants would thrive in a soggy, shaded environment. Looking forward to your advice
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Lots, but gravel + boggy ground don't go together very well: gravel is all about hot dry gardens and plants that like to keep their necks dry.

the other watchout for boggy ground is that plants that like it are often attractive to slugs (who like boggy ground because it is moist and slimy for them).

However, boggy stuff can be fantastically dramatic because wet shade is good for plants that grow huge and fast and dramatic. also depends how boggy really, lots of very ordinary stuff will grow if it's not too dark and soggy - like cranesbills, ladies mantle

So top of head, hostas, hydrangeas, rheums (fleshy rhubarby things), thalictrum, some of the sedgy-grasses, the tall white tobacco plant nicotiana sylvestris, bog salvia (very tall wispy blue pretty), angelica, marbled arum, acanthus (bears breeches). if it's not hopelessly soggy but just shady and not dry then japanese maples. some roses don't mind shady - check the david austin catalogue or website. Siberian irises (blue/spring) but not the summer bearded ones. Heuchera, tierella, - ooh you've really got me started now!

Thanks Hidden Treasure. That's lots of food for thought.

Ferns do well in the wet'n'shady area of our back garden.

A good annual is mimulas (think that's what it's called also known as monkey flower) thrived in my boggy shady part of garden.
It was great gave me loads of colour. Got mine in Homebase.