Help for a new gardener

I'm new to gardening this year, having just bought a country house with a
good-sized yard.  Unfortunately, the previous owner did not take care of the
garden, and I found by the end of August that we were overrun with native
bamboo, which we had to have removed.  Now we have about 7000 sq ft in one
area where the bamboo has been removed, and I need some advice for planting it
next spring.  

Since I don't know precisely what the light is (the area extends back through
pine trees, and there are some deciduous trees as well) and since I've been
told that bamboo can come back, I'm reluctant to invest in a lot of perennials
for next year.  Whatever advice people on this helpful list may have will be
appreciated.

Thanks, Laury Epstein in southeast Massachusetts, zone 5  

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