Plants/Shrubs for Shady Areas

Cast Iron Plant
"Brilliance" Autumn Fern
Lenten Rose
Acuba
Holly Fern
Gigantic Liriope
Dwarf Palmetto

Corn plant
Peace lily

Dislike the rock idea....
Try these shrubs, which are fine in deep shade: azaleas, oak leaf hydrangeas, japonica camellias, cast iron plant, mountain Laurel, beauty bush.

Use pine straw instead of rocks to mulch the area, or a shade tolerant groundcover like ardesia.

Regarding the rocks. I did the metal edging and rocked in almost all of areas that are on the north sides of my house, carport, shed and outside office. I do not regret it one bit. It took areas that were perpetually dirt or mud and made them clean and attractive year-round. Nothing fancy, just scoops of road gravel (bigger than pea, smaller than egg rock) from Woerner Turf.

We're building a pool and my landscaping ideas are going to use more rocks and minimal Japanese Garden style plantings.

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I like this one. I've read you can cut it back to the ground in the winter with a weedeater or lawn mower and it will grow back that summer.

Very tough plant

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you can trim it but i don't think you really need to. it will lay down in cold weather but perk back up when the weather warms

Thanks for all the suggestions. In an ideal scenario, I would use mulch instead of rock but with the draining issues we’ve had in this area around the house, I just think rock will hold up better. We are planning to use steel landscape edging and similar rock to what you mentioned in your post. Then it’ll just be a matter of finding what of the suggested plants my wife likes best and go from there.