Me too! I think it depends a bit on what the canopy is -- things do very poorly under conifers, for example. The very shady beds we have we've had luck with prostrate juniper & tsuga, green & even golden yew (though it loses most of the yellow tint), bergenia (the hardiest plants ever -- I forgot a cutting and left it in an empty pot with just some newspaper for over a decade during which the pot turned on its side, got covered in building dust, and ended up completely hidden under the hedge, and rescuing it this spring, the thing is now enormous & flourishing in an area that's shaded 90% of the day), alchemilla, some geraniums, a dark-green-leaved hebe that we didn't plant, and ivy of course. And on the shady side of the house a couple of cotoneasters are flourishing and a honeysuckle is clinging on to life despite the fact that it's in an alcove and never gets direct light. The rose we planted on that side isn't doing too well, though; it grows and flowers a little, but it's more susceptible to disease than our other roses.

We have a lot of wild garden -- it's very good for birds & other wildlife!