RE: Perennials for Dry Shade

Hello again,

Chleone will wilt without moisture, true.  But I have soaker hoses running
through all my beds which I utilize during the summer.  My point was just
that it will tolerate and spread in those conditions as long as there is
supplemental water.  Somethings, even with water, won't tolerate those
conditions (the voice of experience)!  I water everything in my garden all
summer, to some degree.

The Joe Pye weed -- I'm sorry I don't know if its Eupatroium *fistulotum* or
not.  I should do some research, I just haven't.  It's one of those plants
that survived with almost no care when I was first gardening -- and I got it
at an "open garden" so it probably never had a "real" tag.  It gets about 4
1/2 feet tall in late summer with pink flowers.  Seems to be a stoloniferous
spreader.  Was in terribly dry shade, with late hot sun 
since the beginning and I just started watering there in the last few years
as I expanded that bed.  The clump, with this treatment, has spread to about
3 x 4, even with my sharing with friends.

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the 
flowers come together to praise the Lord and teach all 
who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: WHTROS@aol.com [W*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 11:15 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Perennials for Dry Shade
> 
> 
> In a message dated 4/22/99 12:10:45 PM CST, 
> SSaxton@Schwabe.com writes:
> 
> << other plants I have had success with in dry SEMI-shade  >>
> 
> I appreciate your list.  I have to deal with a lot of dry, 
> semi-shade also.
> But I'm curious about the following 2 items:
> 	Chelone (turtlehead)
> 	Joe Pye weed (eupatorium)
> I thought these needed moist soil, evenly moist soil.
> I thought, perhaps, the reason my Joe Pye weed didn't bloom 
> more than a 
> couple weeks was b/c it didn't get enough water.  Last year 
> was the first 
> full summer for it and I was very disappointed in it.  I hope 
> it blooms 
> longer this summer.
> 
> Enjoyed the Chelone tremendously.  Have it where I pass by a 
> lot and where 
> the gutter leaks, I think.
> 
> Best wishes to you all --
> Barb
> USDA Zone 5, Rock Island, IL
> "What this country needs is dirtier fingernails & cleaner 
> minds."  Will Rogers
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