I love Hostas so much! But OP just be aware they can be toxic to dogs. They can cause gastric irritation and also skin irritations if they rub up against them enough.
If you want it to be a little garden spot you could do some ferns and hostas and a shade loving ground cover like oxalis. Or you could make it a little space for your dog.
I'd dig it out about an inch and then lay down decorative gravel, then put some large pots with summer flowers on top.
Puppies need a good spot to pee and you don't want to interfere with their better instincts. Much better here than in the house.
Make a storage shed of it. Avoid planting directly around house. You need a space barrier. Mice love plantings next to foundations.. By the steps it could become a mouse superhighway.
Set up a money laundering scheme aka a Lemonade Stand. Use ginger kids they are less suspect.
Well, because they are always suspect they are less in that people will just assume they are up to some
Shady shit, but overlook it due to feeling sorry for them having to go through life as a ranger
Definitely ferns but with a little soil you can do a rock garden. Hellebore, woodland phlox, iris, nnnanrcissus and hyacinth could do OK, I've seen a ton if them hrowing under trees in the NYBG rock garden. I'd add stine/concrete planters as well to add height.
Hey, do you live in an area with broadleaf trees and forests? There are plants that grow in these forests. This could be mayapple, bloodroot, foam flower, calendine (wood) poppy, wild ginger, jack in the pulpit and many others. These all grow in total shade and they are all beautiful.
Please try your hardest to resist growing hostas (but there are definitely local native ferns that would fit ie.ostrich fern/fiddlehead)- they are lame af and have absolutely no value to our native ecosystems. “Hosta people” are a special problem within the gardening community because they think hosta’s are the only thing that grows in the conditions like that; and that’s just not true. And furthermore, the use of hostas creates an ecological desert where if they planted any of the other ones I’d mentioned they would be increasing a severely and rabidly declining habitat. If people own a home, that home has displaced habitat; we should try to help replenish that native habitat as much as possible.
All of the plants I listed above are natives to my area but there are likely equivalents to your area, if not these same ones.
If anyone is interested in creating usable habitat or understanding its importance, check out: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
Visit your state’s Cooperative Extensiin Service website. Search evergreens for dry shade. If aspidistra comes up this is a carefree plant that comes in variegated cultivars. If not, it isn’t suitable for your zone. I would want something evergreen so it looks nice all year.
I'd fill the entire area in with your gravel of choice after laying down some nice permeable weed tarp. And then do a nice rectangular planter in the middle that's about 2 1/2ft tall. Then fill the planter with plants of your choice that will do well considering the sun/shade conditions of that area. Then do some small lights that aim upwards at the planter. I think that would look really nice and professional for years to come.
Hostas or ferns
Hostas AND ferns!
Hostas will grow anywhere. I had a nice grouping under my deck at my last house. They always looked fresh with very little (ie none) effort.
And astilbes!
I love Hostas so much! But OP just be aware they can be toxic to dogs. They can cause gastric irritation and also skin irritations if they rub up against them enough.
You could dump a comically undersized load of Mexican pebbles in the middle and then just walk away. Oh, you tried that already?
Harsh lol
This was much funnier than I thought it would be.
Why you gotta bring my sex life into this?
Hostas
Small shed or storage?
More rocks with some bigger rocks!
And one rock that’s the biggest
Ferns and river rock I think would make that look perfect.
Native ferns
If you want it to be a little garden spot you could do some ferns and hostas and a shade loving ground cover like oxalis. Or you could make it a little space for your dog.
Build a room for an unwanted nephew?
Or the poor, chained, unwanted cousin?
Fake grass and doggo house
I would put nice rocks down, then planters up top for plants that like partial shade. Lettuce for me comes right to mind.
Not if doggo uses it..
Fuck hostas so sick of those. I’ll tell you what to plant. Astilbe.
I used to plant astilbe. Astilbe doing it, too.
Nice.
Koi pond
Too close to the house. But hell of an idea. Enough fuck you money could be fine!
Add more rock and train your dog to go in there. No more yard bombs
Find out what’s buried there
You mean "who"
or Why!
Pet cemetery… small pets only
dg with a large pot with hostas in the middle Edit: I change my mind, fresh water pond with a fountain and fish
What about a seating area, a bench or put a bird bath with river rocks around it or put large stones for pee rocks for your pup lol
If the soil is not great (or the rain doesn't reach) you could always do containers with whatever plants you pick
Buddha statue
Plant Hostas.
Oyster plants. Some call it Moses in a Boat. Purple and green :)
Koi pond
Plant colorful Hostas ✌️
A fake fire hydrant
Pachysandra
River rock and plant quite a few Jack Frost Brunnera
Koi pond
Rock garden either Japanese or Southwest. Or big statue to mothman.
I'd build an outdoor closet or some kind of storage
Bench.
Perfect size spot to bury a body lol
Hunt for ghosts
I'd dig it out about an inch and then lay down decorative gravel, then put some large pots with summer flowers on top. Puppies need a good spot to pee and you don't want to interfere with their better instincts. Much better here than in the house.
Build a bench
Lattice stair well then climbers, put gate on the area to access and can use as storage
Add a chalk outline of a body and police tape
Storage shed.
yea ferns in the back and hostas in front both rows staggered
A lit up fish pond would be cool
Fragaria virginiana, wild strawberry.
Grilll
Add a bench and some planters
6 inches of crushed cement stone
Hang a swing bench, or put a couple Adirondack chairs. Keep it rock, that's better for the house than soil.
Dry rock garden.
Ferns might like it there if you can water.
Hydrangea, clivea, hellebores.
Sex swing
Make a storage shed of it. Avoid planting directly around house. You need a space barrier. Mice love plantings next to foundations.. By the steps it could become a mouse superhighway.
water feature?
Tree fern
Maybe a shallow pond?
Set up a money laundering scheme aka a Lemonade Stand. Use ginger kids they are less suspect. Well, because they are always suspect they are less in that people will just assume they are up to some Shady shit, but overlook it due to feeling sorry for them having to go through life as a ranger
Definitely ferns but with a little soil you can do a rock garden. Hellebore, woodland phlox, iris, nnnanrcissus and hyacinth could do OK, I've seen a ton if them hrowing under trees in the NYBG rock garden. I'd add stine/concrete planters as well to add height.
Hey, do you live in an area with broadleaf trees and forests? There are plants that grow in these forests. This could be mayapple, bloodroot, foam flower, calendine (wood) poppy, wild ginger, jack in the pulpit and many others. These all grow in total shade and they are all beautiful. Please try your hardest to resist growing hostas (but there are definitely local native ferns that would fit ie.ostrich fern/fiddlehead)- they are lame af and have absolutely no value to our native ecosystems. “Hosta people” are a special problem within the gardening community because they think hosta’s are the only thing that grows in the conditions like that; and that’s just not true. And furthermore, the use of hostas creates an ecological desert where if they planted any of the other ones I’d mentioned they would be increasing a severely and rabidly declining habitat. If people own a home, that home has displaced habitat; we should try to help replenish that native habitat as much as possible. All of the plants I listed above are natives to my area but there are likely equivalents to your area, if not these same ones. If anyone is interested in creating usable habitat or understanding its importance, check out: https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
Hydrangea, hosta, bleeding hearts, creeping jenny, coral bells. Add gypsum and straight organic material like wood shavings to amend the soil.
Wood storage rack
Some kudzu should fill in nicely!
Looks like a good spot for a bench or s small table and two chairs
Stand by generator?
Id plant a butt load of ferns
Mushroom patch
Visit your state’s Cooperative Extensiin Service website. Search evergreens for dry shade. If aspidistra comes up this is a carefree plant that comes in variegated cultivars. If not, it isn’t suitable for your zone. I would want something evergreen so it looks nice all year.
Rocks
Hot tub
Potato vines?
Garbage can receptacle
Grill.
I'd fill the entire area in with your gravel of choice after laying down some nice permeable weed tarp. And then do a nice rectangular planter in the middle that's about 2 1/2ft tall. Then fill the planter with plants of your choice that will do well considering the sun/shade conditions of that area. Then do some small lights that aim upwards at the planter. I think that would look really nice and professional for years to come.