shade under maples

Wouldn't you know!  We moved into a new house last year and I'm planning
out the garden - bit by bit.  There are several well established trees
on the lot.  A HUGE silver maple and then many smaller maples.  I read a
lot about shade gardens and am planning one in an area that's not under
a maple -  Everything I read about shade gardening and gardening under
trees says essentially if the trees are maples that you're out of luck
since they're such shallow rooted, greedy trees.  

But then I read what Susan Campanini wrote:

 "I have a nice shade bed under a huge maple with lots of leaf
mold in the soil where I grow ferns, gingers, rhododendrons, a pieris,
hosta, kirengoshoma, helleborus, gallium, sanguinaria, trillium, and
other woodland plants. This is where I would plant the kalmia..."

And I guess there's hope!  What should I do to get things started under
these maples?

sharon
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