You're right Bobert. Once I'm moved and settled and living on the place, I think I'll get quite excited about the prospects and the opportunity to learn about gardening in a very different habitat. Even if the lot where I'm moving were sunny, I would have to learn a different asthetic. The big, Victorian style cottage garden I have created here around my 1912 wood bungalow would be entirely incongruous surrounding a modest brick and vinyl 1960's era ranch style house.

I've always loved the deep woods and the play of light and shadow, the little gems of spring-beauties, tootworts, wood anemones, trilliums and trout lilies, or a sweep of goldenseal. I've longed to be able to grow astilbes, ferns and cohoshes. I'm already imagining a swathe of your solomon seals, maybe jacob's ladder, native vibernums, hearts-a-burstin', etc.

Or simply a bench placed where I can sit and admire the lines and texture of the bark on a tall white oak.