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Plant suggestions

Plants for dry shade

Ajuga

Bergenia

Columbine*

Cranesbill

Epimedium

Goatsbeard*

Lady's mantle

Solomon's seal*

Sweet woodruff

Wild ginger*

Understory trees for partial shade

Allegheny serviceberry*

Chokecherry*

Eastern hemlock*

Eastern redbud* (Minnesota strain)

Ironwood*

Japanese yew

Nannyberry*

Pagoda dogwood*

Speckled alder*

Vernal witchhazel*

*Native plant

Rhonda Fleming Hayes