Shady corner help

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Can anyone give me some advice on what (and (where exactly) to plant in this shady corner.
I'm absolutely hopeless and don't even know where to begin.

Hope you get some good advice, I am not too hot on plants. But, if that were my garden I would love to add a statue and some seating.

I'd chuck in some Japanese anemones - they grow anywhere, can't be killed and will spread to fill the space. Other shade lovers are hydrangeas (water regularly - they don't establish well if they dry out), dicentra and Solomon's seal (which is beautiful, but if you see the leaves getting eaten, look out for the sawfly - don't plant if you are a hater of creepy crawlies).

Whatever you plant, plant more than one of them, preferably three. Looks better and you don’t need so much inspiration.

Epimidium. There is a basic yellow one that grows everywhere.

Ferns, especially the ones that are happy if it’s a bit drier (check online or ask at the garden centre).

Camellia would probably be happy, and they are flowering now so easy to choose.

Ask a neighbour if they have some pulmonaria, it grows like a weed and they will probably let you have a few clumps (you could have some of mine).

And pop in some hellebores, they will be going on sale soon as they stop flowering and the garden places want to be rid of them.

Agree with epimedium - beautiful foliage and the daintiest flowers like something from the land of fairies in spring. Long lived and good ground cover.

Ferns, Japanese anemones, foxgloves, cyclamen coum, hellebores, bluebells, snowdrops.

For a more modern vibe hakonechloa macra en masse.

Before buying the plants, think about whether it's generally dry or damp - trees can often take a lot of water and make the ground near them rather dry. That might not suit some of the plants mentioned.

A couple of shrubs for structure - a viburnum and sarcococa confusa, clumps of bulbs such as daffodils, a climber on the wall - Hydrangea peteolaris, ferns and hellinores as other people have said. I love shade gardens. Other types of hydrangeas do like a moist soil. Something like hydrangea aspera would be lovely but mulch well and water well in summer until it's established.

Meant to add, bulletproof fatsia japonica.

Mahonia will grow in poor,dry soil. By if it’s dry it will grow more slowly.

Looks like a rhododendron there already and something deciduous again the wall. Maybe wait and see what comes up in the Spring and work around them.

Excuse the typos in my first post.

Looks like you need plants for dry shade as you've got the trees and the walls. What kind of soil do you have?

A Fatsia would look great there.

I have helebores growing happily in a very shady corner, against a fence and under a low tree.

Thanks for all the replies!
I don't even know what type of soil it is, sorry. But I'll do my research with these and see what I can put together

Soil - dig a handfull up, dampen it. Roll it into a ball, then into a cube.

If you can make a cube, you have heavy clay.
If you cant even make a ball, its very sandy.
It'll probably be somewhere in between.

Echoing the hellebore, cyclamen, ferns, bulbs. Honesty. I'm gonna bet its not too dry with that moss.
But my main tip is a stumpery with some nice mossy tree stumps and all of those plants dotted around.
Shady garden corners are great- lovely woodland look and much less weeding than sunny beds!

I'd also try 3 Japanese anemone, away from the trees, though.

https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/20-plants-for-dry-shade/

Those leylandii will have sucked up any nutrients from the soil as well as water. Before you plant anything I'd add lots of organic matter.

Lots of good plant suggestions jyst check first the ground conditions and water well during the establishment period.

I'd also consider replacing the leylandii at some point.