Here's some photos of what's just up in my native woodland shade garden, zone 6:
[img]https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/rainbowgardener/Cleavers.jpg[/img] cleavers (aka bedstraw)
[img]https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/rainbowgardener/hepatica.jpg[/img] hepatica, showing last years leaves and in back this year's new leaves just popping up
[img]https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/rainbowgardener/springbeauty.jpg[/img] spring beauty. If you look very closely, there's teeny tiny flower buds
[img]https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/rainbowgardener/tiarella.jpg[/img] tiarella, showing how it keeps its leaves all year
[img]https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/rainbowgardener/troutlily.jpg[/img] trout lily sprouts, just poking out of the ground
[img]https://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/rainbowgardener/celandine_poppy.jpg[/img] celandine poppy is popping up all over