Re: plants for DRY, semi-shade

Andrea - how about prostrate rosemary? Great for hot dry areas and they
don't seem to mind clay. I have the shrubs, but the creeping varieties
might work there?


Pam

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Ray & Nora Edwards" <raynora.edwards@worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:09:09 -0800

>Do people walk near the area you are trying to plant. If so I wouldn't plant
>Helleborus. The leaves are sharp and a cut from one can make you feel sick.
>Would ice plant work I've seen it survive in very hot beach areas with
>little care. Portulaca is also a good idea. I have lavandula in my dry hot
>areas It might do quite well with little care and it's very attractive.
>
>Nora
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] plants for DRY, semi-shade
>
>
>> A tough location, Andrea....well...you might try Euphorbia spp.
>> (myrsinites, characias, amygdaloides var. robbia); they will put up
>> with a good deal of dry.  Or assorted thymes; Salvia officinalis
>> ('Purpurascens', 'Berggarten'); Helleborus argutifolius might do
>> there, too....maybe even H. foetidus; both take part shade, like some
>> sun and do well in dry, stony soil once established.  The annual
>> vinca might do or a lantana.  Lychnis coronaria is pretty tolerant of
>> dry soil and takes part shade.  In your climate, a lot of 'sun'
>> plants will take part shade and still bloom.
>>
>> Portulaca is another annual.  Oh, and what about hens and chicks -
>> Sempervivums?  I saw a lovely lot of them growing on top of a stone
>> wall at Asiatica Nursery..no soil at all, really, full sun; tough
>> guys.  My lot is in a clay pot that got broken last fall - left it
>> out in the open, caved in side and all and they rode the awful winter
>> just fine.  They will take part shade...the colors may not be as
>> vibrant on those with colored leaves.  Assorted Sedums might also do
>> - the rock garden types; not the big ones like S. spectabile or
>> 'Autumn Joy'...they need sufficient water tho' they do well in part
>> shade.
>>
>> Native asters might also do the trick - something like A.
>> lateriflorus 'Horizontalis' or 'Lady in Black'.  They grow in my
>> gravel driveway just fine:-)
>>
>> The problem with any perennial is that they need water to get
>> established so that they have a large enough root system to deal with
>> dry conditions, so they would probably need at least a good drink
>> twice a week.  You don't say how deep that planter is or whether it's
>> open to the ground at the bottom.  If it's deep and bottomless,
>> perennials will have a better chance once they get their roots down.
>>
>> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>> mtalt@hort.net
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>> > From: Andrea H <hodgesaa@islc.net>
>> >
>> > Hi all-what annuals & low growing perennials do you use for hot,
>> dry
>> > semi-shade? I have a job that is going to need some. It's a very
>> small space,
>> > around a sign that is close to the road. It's a big square planter
>> around the
>> > sign, maybe 3 feet width and 5 foot length on each side. It is
>> shaded
>> > partially by a big oak but will get very hot as the summer
>> progresses. it will
>> > get some sun in the late afternoon, and probably not a whole lot of
>> water
>> > unless I go by there and do it myself and I don't know that I can
>> do that on a
>> > every other day basis (unless the pay me of course, which I will
>> tell them)
>> >
>> > Anyway-suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> >
>> > Andrea H
>> > Beaufort, SC
>> > Zone 8b
>>
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