Re: Disporum and Maianthemum advice please

Heucheras should do well too.
-Jason Dewees
San Francisco, California

--- Catherine Ratner <catherineratner@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> How about Helleborus foetidus (a black green that
> would contrast with the
> lividus), Ligularias and/or Farfugium, Geranium
> phaeum?
> 
> I thought Anthriscus Ravens Wing was an annual, but
> you write as if it is a
> perennial.  Mine certainly died in the late summer. 
> I am hoping for seed.
> 
> > From: Trevorshighclass@aol.com
> > Reply-To: Trevorshighclass@aol.com
> > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:27:29 EDT
> > To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> > Subject: Disporum and Maianthemum advice please
> > 
> > I have an area which is soggy clay for six months
> of the year during winter
> > and spring (fed by a winter creek)  and relatively
> dry for the remainder and
> > is 
> > shaded in our very hot summer by deciduous trees. 
> Most plants I have tried
> > turn up their toes in the winter wet.  Successes
> have been Hellebores lividus,
> > Anthriscus Ravens Wing (summer dormant here),
> cyclamen and Tellima.  I was
> > wondering about the suitability of Disporum
> sessile veriegatum  and
> > Maianthemum 
> > (previously smilacina) racemosa or stellata.
> > 
> > Thank you
> > Karen Roberts
> > Perth Hills, Western Australia
> > 
>
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