Best plants to grow in shady area of garden?

[Jem01]

Our left flowerbed gets no sun and is shady the entire day. We planted a two ferns and as lovely as they are we want a bit more variety so are looking for one or two flowers/plants/bushes that cope well with very little sun.

Any recommendations would be great!
Thanks.

There is a thread on this board all about shady plants with lots of great ideas.

I love hostas, sarcococa, hellebores for winter colour. Websites like Crocus.co.uk also have useful plantfinders to help find the right plant for a space.

I have a north-facing back yard and things that currently do well in the shade there include hardy fuchsia, lady's mantle, dwarf cyclamen, Ajuga reptans, Pulmonaria.

Thanks all!

Cranesbill ( hardy) geraniums, many varieties of size and shades from white through to dark purple. Planted in a mass they could give you flowers from spring through to first frost.

Here is shovetheholly's shade lover thread

shady thread

Ferns, monkshood, perennial geraniums woodland varieties (they last all summer and are fantastically colourful), camellias, hellebores, annual geraniums, nicotiana I have these annuals growing well under trees, sarcococca, begonias, bergenias, tiarella, cotoneaster, skimmia japonica, winter jasmine, honeysuckle, mine grows in very deep shade, different types of euonymus and much to my surprise sedum spectabile and the other varieties have done fantastically well in shade for three years now and are huge, and all varieties of flower carpet with just two hours sun a day.
Your shade need never be boring again.