If you had a 90x50x40cm container in the shade...

[BarbaraManatee]

What would you put in it? The 40cm is the soil depth. I don't think it gets any sun & is currently covered in moss - I'd like something a little prettier. Surely something will grow there?!

No sun at all? That could be tricky, but you could experiment with ferns and ivy.

Fatsia japonica as I like the tropical look! Or a hydrangea? Lots of different types, doesn't have to be the traditional mophead. Skimmia also do well in shade. Yes to ferns I'd underplant with something a bit daintier. My mind's gone blank, I'll have to check my shady border tomorrow

Do you have anything at the back of it i.e. a fence or wall for a climber or is it freestanding?

For underplanting, you could try woodland things like vinca (periwinkle) and galium odoratum (sweet woodruff) but, the less light the area receives, the more restricted the choices are likely to be.

Hostas?

Ajuga burgandy glow

lamium silver frost

forget me knots

trailing nepeta

bizzie lizzies !!!!

I have one, and have a 4 ft fatsia in it, which started st 18inches. I've had various trailing annuals around the edge, fewer as its grown. Lime green Helichrysum and nasturtiums looked nice with it.

if you can keep the slugs away a hosta? There's so many different ones. Annuals for shade - Begonias - I love them and I grow them in the shade (because my neighbours huge tree swamps our garden of any light). I grow the non-stop ones in containers and borders, and I just love the apricot shades one which trails from baskets and has the most lovely huge blooms (that don't need dead heading). Also Busy Lizzies do well in the shade.

I used to put single begonia in a old chimney pot in pretty deep shade every year, and it was enormous at the end of the year. The pot was pretty big- about 30cm across and the same deep. But it was soon filled, and the trailing blooms would touch the floor from a height of 3-4ft.