Google pulled a Reddit thread showing an image that didn’t quite match this, of the Chinese character Shou. This does look like the lower portion but I don’t know any Chinese and very few Chinese religious or cultural symbols. Do these symbols signify or say anything in Chinese?
I’ve tried so many things here. Cardinal flower, sword fern, violets, zinnias, steffi gaura, even a rose. The rose actually was doing fine until it got rose slugs. Nonetheless this spot gets very little sun in the winter, & is shaded for most of the day in the summer too except for about 3-6pm when it gets intense, direct sun. And it’s downhill from my garden beds & an elevated backyard so it can get pretty moist for quite awhile.
So far the only thing that’s been able to last are these obedient plants & the rose that went in last August, one volunteer violet plant nestled underneath them, & the nandina in the corner (half was taken out yesterday the other tomorrow). It does get weeds but mostly tree saplings. Grasses like mondo & stilt grass don’t spread here like they do elsewhere, even bindweed or something like it hasn’t popped up & I fight that everywhere else.
Any suggestions? At this point I don’t care about the height, bloom time, perennial or not etc just as many native suggestions that might actually survive!