Penny: I have a flower bed that runs behind our house which gets no direct sunlight throughout the year.

Surprisingly, I've found daylilies do wonderfully there. Lily of the valley give me early color. Spiderwort flowers well in parts of the bed. Also have daffodils for early color along with vinca and sweet woodruff. Gooseneck loosestrife, which can be invasive, brigtens up the area in the heat of the summer. And the bees just love it, too.

Sorry, no hummer plants in my shady bed. Lots of whites though, which are a nice contrast to the deep foliage.

Tracy

Most of my hummer plants like sun. I have a trumpet vine in the shade in back, but a lot of my other things aren't hummer draws.

My shade gardens include (in no particular order), besides the hosta and columbine you mention, toad lilies, foxglove, primrose, Japanese primrose, japanese anenome, Solomon's seal, spiderwort, monkshood, astilbe, trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, ostrich fern, Christmas fern, Japanese painted fern, tall coral bells, mayapple, scottish bellflower, oakleaf hydrangea, hydrangea, goldenstar, goats beard, holly, obedient plant, rhododendron, azalea, rose Zephirine Drouhin, lily of the valley, pulmonaria, foamflower, lamium, forget-me-not, and bleeding heart, among other things. I also had a clematis that would bloom there, but I don't recall the variety.

The left side of the bed is dry shade under a willow tree. The right side is more moist shade. Certain things will grow in one or the other, but not both.

The hummers like coral bells. Not sure what else they went for back there, maybe foxglove?

Penny,just move all your 4 foot mutants that are supposed to be 12" tall to those empty spots. Believe me everyone, I've seen Penny's garden and she grows some unusual monsters. And she always asks are those supposed to be 4 foot tall????

Husky
You are just too funny! I do have to tell you though that I have some Salvia Coccineas Coral Nymph right now that are right at the 4 1/2 ft. mark in a window box no less. You would have to see it to believe it and they are quite happy.

Penny