I am a recent addition to Garden Web and am looking forward to planting my first garden this spring. To give you a bit of an idea of what I am up against, it currently snowing here. Technically we are in the middle of a blizzard since Friday and it will not let up until Tuesday. Also, I live in the mountains, so high elevation and lots of rocky soil. Lots of my yard is vacant, some is full of stumps cut close to the ground and the rest is filled with tall pine trees with little baby pine trees underneath. I would like to remove the little pine saplings and put in some shade plants and also put some shade plants along my driveway which is currently occupied by one massive pine tree but otherwise vacant. Ideally I would love to use ferns, but they cost too much at the nursery. Does anyone have any good ideas on what I can grow that will not be prohibitively expensive and will fill the space nicely? I would like some variety too. Some of the shade is light, but much of it is dense, woodland type shade. I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks for the help.

Rachel

First, welcome to GardenWeb. I'm sure you will find it a great place to learn more about gardening and to share you gardening experiences (or even plants and seeds).

But, this (the Seed Exchange Forum) is really, really, really not the place for this topic. There are many other Forums where you could choose to post, but this one is reserved for offering seed exchanges. Below is a link to the list of Forums. The Gardening in Shade Forum and the Woodlands Forums come to mind, but many others may be applicable.