I've been so busy cleaning the gardens, I forgot that I cut down my sumac that was shading one of my gardens...it's full of hostas like August Moon, Hadspen Blue, Krossa Regal, Gold Standard and a few more I can't remember.

If I keep them very well watered will they be fine until I get a new tree and it has time to grow a bit?

This area has well-amended clay soil and gets eastern sun until about 1 or 2 pm. It slopes a bit, so I do think it stays kind of dry...I noticed that some of my shade loving plants like astilbe don't do all that well, but lilies do great...so it's pretty much full sun. I can mulch more heavily in between the hostas (not the crowns)...what do you think?

Will any of those I mentioned get very bad sunburn...I could probably avoid that if I move them soon while they are just pips. However, I think hostas are my best ground cover in this garden..everywhere that I don't have a hosta, I have weed issues...my archnemeses golden rod and creeping charlie.

I'm planning to move a serviceberry or two into that garden to provide shade. I just need my muscle-boy-for-hire to come over and do the digging, as I already have the trees (4-6' clumps). It may take a few weeks to get him and obviously, when I do, these smallish clumps are going to need to grow out a bit before they really give a nice, dappled shade over most of the garden.