This planting plan is heavy on the evergreens to create an interesting year round yard. The bright red stems of the red osier dogwood will provide some nice contrast. Trilliums are included to welcome in spring with their white to purple beautiful, three-petal bloom. This plan includes a wildlife snag to provide food and shelter for a wide variety of birds. Wildlife snags are standing dead trees. If you have one already, just leave it and create your landscape around it. If the dead tree poses a safety issue, you can ask an arborist to cut it off at a height that won't pose a threat. Western hemlock and western redcedar rise on each side of the path. Vine maples grow nearby to show off their elegant shape. The bench is surrounded by the smaller perennials of vanilla leaf, piggy back plant, trillium and wild ginger.

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Plant list for Moist, shady

symbol	type	common name	Latin name	exposure	moisture	height (ft)	avail.	ease
	Tree	vine maple	Acer circinatum	part shade - shade	dry - moist	25	H	H	add plant
	Tree	cascara	Rhamnus purshiana	sun - shade	dry - wet	30	M	M	add plant
	Tree	Western redcedar	Thuja plicata	part shade - shade	moist - wet	200	H	M	add plant
	Tree	Western hemlock	Tsuga heterophylla	part shade - shade	moist - wet	225	M	M	add plant
	Shrub	red-osier dogwood	Cornus sericea	sun - shade	moist - wet	15	H	H	add plant
	Shrub	low Oregon grape	Mahonia nervosa	part shade - shade	dry - moist	3	H	M	add plant
	Shrub	evergreen huckleberry	Vaccinium ovatum	part shade - shade	dry - moist	6	H	M	add plant
	Groundcover	vanilla leaf	Achlys triphylla	part shade - shade	dry - moist	1	M	H	add plant
	Groundcover	wild ginger	Asarum caudatum	part shade - shade	moist	0.5	H	M	add plant
	Groundcover	deer fern	Blechnum spicant	part shade - shade	dry - wet	2	H	M	add plant
	Groundcover	sword fern	Polystichum munitum	part shade - shade	dry - moist	3	H	H	add plant
	Groundcover	piggyback plant; youth-on-age	Tolmiea menziesii	part shade - shade	dry - moist	1	H	H	add plant
	Groundcover	trillium	Trillium ovatum	part shade - shade	dry - moist	1.5	M	M	add plant