Dicentras (Was Re: New Topic---Favorite Companions (Perennials))

LOL! You're right, Tom, about that junk/treasure thing. Here in East TN
(Z7) I have never had a dicentra or a toad lily self seed! The other two I
don't grow - in the case of the sensitive fern because I have heard
warnings about it being a thug.

:-) back actcha,
Gerry 

At 06:24 PM 3/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Gerry,
>      I thought I loved Dicentra until I had to hoe down and manually pull up
>thousands of red and white bleeding hearts that have taken over my garden.
I also
>have lost my patience with impatients that have taken up way too much
space. If
>you want some dicentras, toads lilies, rubrums or sensitive ferns, get in
your car
>and drive to Atlanta. You can have as many as you care to dig.  Maybe it's
the
>southern climate, but they are weeds to me.  I do wish my hosta got as big as
>yours, maybe they could if these weeds would go away :) One mans junk is
another
>mans treasure.
>One more smile :)
>Tom
>
>> Also pulmonarias ('Roy Davidson' my fav at the moment)
>> Astilbe (H. 'Patriot' with Fanal - Wow!)
>> Anything with finely cut leaves, Maidenhair fern, Dicentra, for example.
>> And Autumn fern with H. August Moon.
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>> At 10:17 PM 3/7/99 EST, you wrote:
>> >What are your three most favored perennials for your hosta garden?
>> >
>> >Mine are:
>> >Carexes
>> >Pulmonarias
>> >Ligularias
>> >(Astilbes a close fourth, but in my climate I treat most of them as
annuals.)
>> >Clyde Crockett z5
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