averygoodun42 | Plant ID needed

Hello fellow gardeners! I was wondering if any of you know what this plant is:

My neighbor gave me those and I need to know whether they tolerate shade or not before I plant them. ;-)

Oh, and in gardening news, it looks like 15 out of my 53 plants survived. I'm bummed the bleeding hearts all died, but I'm happy enough that two (out of 3) blue hostas and five, possibly six, (out of 8) ferns survived. And all six astilbe and all three ligularia!!! Whee! The lily of the valley seems to be a total wash, though. :-( Ach well. I'm sure one of my local gardening friends will be happy enough to share some of that!

Also, I finally thinned out my chard yesterday, and I managed to get enough to make for supper. It was very nice chard, too.

All my veggies are looking pretty good. I think I'll need to transplant or simply harvest about half of my cabbages, as I, erm, planted them too close together. Oops. I also have to look up how to cultivate them (they're napa) so they don't bolt, as they're looking to do.

Also exciting is Page's excitement about his peas. He planted them, and he helped weed them and wanted to water them all on his own. And, as a reward, I showed him one of the developing pea pods. He's very happy.

Oh, and I talked to the association's landscaper the other day and 1) if I remove the rocks I've already laid, they will scrape and prepare the entire yard, meaning I will have good soil as a base, and might not even need the two layers of rock wall. That would mean we might have enough rocks already! And 2) neither the HOA president or the landscaping dude likes the fact that the front maple has completely grown around the power pole's guiding wire. And when I say completely grown around, I mean that the biggest of the three main trunks has the guiding wire going directly through it. Another part of the tree has also partially grown around the metal support pole that's trying to support the guiding wire. Anyway, all of us are concerned about that. The association is getting the electricity tree guys to come out and assess all of the neighborhood trees, and I am crossing my fingers that they deem our tree a disaster-waiting-to-happen and chop it down.

Don't get me wrong, I love trees, but maples are a weed around here, and their combination of shallow roots and dense shade are pretty much the worst thing for gardening (or grass growing) that you can imagine. I would be so happy to get something like a pear, cherry or some other city tree in the maple's stead.

And, of course, if the maple goes, then I can plant sun-loving plants!!! Which would be so awesome! I would love to have a peony or two! Daisies! Irises! Daylilies! Clematis!!! Maybe even a rose or two... *happy sigh*

So here's hoping the tree has to go.