Beautiful property! I would plant some hosta, dicentra, astilbe (in any damper spots or near a birdbath where you change the water regularly, so the astilbe gets lots of H2O), heuchera, etc. Sweet Woodruff is a wonderful, evergreen groundcover with white flowers in spring.

Your yard is exactly the way I envision mine. Sadly, the galloping gardeners have other ideas and trample everything in their path. We also have lost several oaks and a couple other trees in the past several years, so I am getting more sun which is frying some of my shade plants. I have planted more trees, but they are young yet. I also fear that new neighbors are going to pretty much clear their property (he told me he likes grass and the golf course look), so we will lose more shade as well as privacy and a lovely vista. He has already removed five trees and have plans for a pool next spring, so more are bound to go. Yikes. I had better get planting this fall!

Can't wait to hear how you proceed! Congrats on the new house!

I highly suggest staying away from hosta's and heuchera. The hosta's, especially, are highly addictive... :-) If you are going to plant hosta's (which you should) please read up on Hosta Virus X (HVX) I just ripped all my hosta's out because I was unaware and bought them from sketchy sources and didn't practice proper tool sanitation.

Good luck as it is a beautiful place. Please keep us up to date with pictures.

SCG

Good point, scg! If lavida hops over to the hosta forum, she will be hooked! I get all my hosta through mail order from folks who test for HVX. Sorry you lost yours.

Yes, I am a hosta addict as well as an enabler. ;)