Awesome! Would love as many as you can spare. Here is my current seed list SEEDLIST 2016 *Woodland seed is moist packed and chilled... Actaea pachypoda-Doll's Eyes Actaea rubra-Red Baneberry Allium cernuum-Nodding Onion Amsonia tabernaemontana-Willowleaf bluestar, Anemonella thalictroides-Rue Anemone Arisaema flavum-Small Yellow Jack in the Pulpit *Not native Arisaema triphyllum-Jack-in-the-Pulpit Asarum canadense-Wild Ginger Asclepias incarnata-Swamp Milkweed Cacalia /Arnoglossum atriplicifolia-Pale Indian Plantain Campsis radicans "Flava"-Yellow Trumpet Vine Campsis r. Summer Snowstorm-Variegated Trumpet Vine Caulophyllum thalictroides-Blue Cohosh Chamaelirium luteum Cimicifuga/Actaea racemosa-Black Cohosh Clematis heracleifolia *not native Clematis viorna-Leatherflower Clematis virginiana-Virgin's Bower Dodecatheon meadia-Shooting Star Echinacea paradoxa-Yellow Coneflower Echinacea p. Magnus-Large Flowered Coneflower Liatris aspera-Rough Blazing Star Liatris pychnostachya Liatris scariosa Lobelia siphilitica-Great Blue Lobelia Monarda fitulosa rare WHITE form Phytolacca americana variegata-Variegated Pokeweed Ratibida columnaris-Mexican Hat Rudbeckia triloba (YELLOW) Salvia coccinea-Texas Red Sage Salvia lyrata-Lyre-leaf Sage Sanguinaria canadensis-Bloodroot Senna hepecarpa Silphium laciniatum-Compass Plant Symphyotrichum novae-angliae-NE Aster Thermopsis caroliniana-False Yellow Lupine Tricyrtis hirta "Blue Wonder" *not native Trillium erectum beige form Trillium erectum RED form Trillium flexipes Trillium grandiflorum Trillum luteum Trillium pusillum Trillium recurvatum-Prairie Trillium Trillium sulcatum Eco Black Magic Verbena stricta-Hoary Vervain Verbesina alternifolia-Wingstem Vernonia altissima/gigantea-GIANT Ironweed Vernonia baldwinii-West Coast Ironweed Vernonia glauca-Dwarf Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis

They might come back. Some of the ones in my lawn come back every year. I mow around until they have run their course, then just mulch up the dead stems. But some of them get stepped on or otherwise damaged (too close with the mower, usually - hit with a wheel or something) and still come back. I expect that several years of such abuse would discourage them though. I moved some this spring to a new area - just used a trowel, got deep enough to get the rhizome and some roots - put them under a maple tree in the front yard where it is all chips. They withstood moving just fine; I expect several "colonies" next year. I just put some woods dirt in the hole in the lawn and threw some seed on it. It will probably grom more woodland plants though!

Well, I have been doing that for years. I have about a half acre of oak/hickory savahnnah that was a disaster when I bought it. In addition to all the invaders, piles of rubble - shingles, windowframes, you-name-it. I agree with another poster who said don't rush in to it. Get to know what you have, prune and nurture over time. I used a chainsaw to lop down the large buckthorns (some with up to 4-5 inch dia trunks) and some elms, large pruning shears/loppers for the smaller, and chipped them. Anything too big to chip becomes a fallen log for salamanders to live under. I don't poison stumps - the area is small enough that I can just re-cut until they finally die. I used a heavy rake to pull up virginia creeper, which was thigh-deep over the entire woods, and chipped it. I was rewarded with emergence of mayapple, Jack-in-the-pulpit, solomon's seal, prairie trillium, and several others. But then the garlic mustard came. Seems the creeper was keeping it at bay. I pull that by hand - crawling on all fours! The results are visible - areas I did in earlier years are nearly clear of it this year. It is tricky though, as it is a bienniel. You just THINK you got it! Once it gets late enough in the season that it is about to go to seed and I don't have time to pull up the rest, I lop it off with a weedeater, and just plan on getting it next season. It is a multi-year project that way, but keeps me out of mischief. Black cherries snuck up on me - once the other stuff was gone, they started sprouting everywhere. What was a few "thickets" started turning into canebreaks! This year I treated those as described above for buckthorn. I keep a few in appropriate areas, but want to let light to the floor. My crop of jacks this year is astonishing! I attach a photo from a couple of years ago/ I have tried several times to protect baby oaks in hopes of getting some decent saplings coming along in more open areas, but something - deer or rabbits? gets them every winter. I have added several truckloads of chips, plus all the chipping I do of scrap, over the years, and what was hardpan you needed a pick to penetrate is now spongy loam you can dig with your bare hands. Sure makes pulling weeds easy! When clearing buckthorns, cherries, elms, etc, I generally pick a spot and pile the carcasses, let them dry for several weeks, before chipping. Sometimes I go right to it, but the chippper tends to clog more. Leaving them in place is fine too, but if you have a lot to get rid of you'll have a mess for quite a while. Piles of dead shrubs will stay for years. If you do that, lop off as many branches as you can, get them to lie flat. That will hasten decomposition. Here is a link that might be useful:

I'd say it decays away in May or early June for me. So not as ephemeral as that. Bloodroot can also retain foliage (but it doesn't have much to begin with) over summer. It's been more than five years, sorry, I have no idea now (and I don't think my ebay purchases go back that far). I can't think of much that meets your wishes, because most things I can think of that die down that early, require a drier rest than your hostas are going to tolerate....plus hostas aren't really that late in leafing out, so would get in the way of things needing to store energy. There's a couple of winter foliage orchids that might fit the bill, but they tend to flower in late summer/autumn before growth of the foliage, so all you'd be getting would be patterned foliage for winter/earliest spring. If you're warm enough, some of the winter foliage lycoris could grow there and produce late summer/autumn flowers. One thing that surprised me (after seeing in grow in the wild) is how much better it grows with 1/2 sun than mostly shade. Is that your issue Katob maybe? Though I have to say when some hot sun hits it..the foliage looks pretty sad till the sun gets off it (this is on 80+ degree spring days..which aren't too many usually).