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Good morning all! A few years ago I ripped out the large bushes on the fully south side of the house and built a large raised bed with fieldstone. Filled it in with "premium topsoil mix" from the local soil business which turned out to be mostly sand mixed with lumps of clay and a little compost. I have been adding chopped leaves to it each year. The few plants that have done well in there are the boxwood,euonymus, houttenouya (sp?)and hosta; also a boulevard falsecypress at the sunnier end. A rhododendren and sweet autumn clematis have done just OK: perennial geranium tends to look great in spring but by midsummer is barely hanging on. Seagreen junipers look quite unhappy. Daffodils in spring are fine. Various other flowering plants have expired leaving an empty patch in front of the boxwood The bed has become shadier as the pear tree in front has grown.(Also I think it gets less rain). Would anyone have suggestions for other perennial flowering or low growing evergreen plants that can tolerate this site? Thanks!

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