A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs Gardening in the Shade Shade and wind

I am helping my MIL this year with her yard. She had surgery this week and I offered to help with her flower bed, pots and window boxes. However she also wants me to help design and plant her landscape project of perennials and who knows what as well. So she lives on a lake. It is zone 4 and she has somewhat clay soil I think. She has huge amounts of hosta, primrose and lily of valley and the like. She has a lot of shade and also wind from the lake. So she cannot grow astilbe or things like that. I made a list of perennials hardy here for shade but I thought I would get opinions on some things to get or avoid so I don't recommend something that won't live. The ones I starred on the list are:
bergenia, brunnera, campanula, doronicum, filipendula, geranium, heuchera, lysimachia, myosotis, rudbeckia goldsturm, tricyrtis, trollis ledebourii, waldsteinia

Any suggestions or especially warnings?

Locate a native plant list. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has extensive information. Ask for information on Lakescaping. A color spiral book is available: ISBN 0-9647451-2-7 Subtitle of the book is: If you own lakeshore property you need ths book. Covers buffer zones for wind, native plantings and wildflowers. MDNR phone # 1-888-646-6367 (MN toll-free). To order book 1-800-657-3757. Or contact your regional office. Your library may have a copy or can inter-loan from the state library system. Could not find an e-address for you but do recall something about Fish Lake in Maple Grove Minn. Try searching with that info.

Thank you for that information!