RE: New subscriber
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: New subscriber
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:34:48 -0700
Welcome, Christine!
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> From: CSch999930@aol.com [C*@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:01 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: New subscriber
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am a new subscriber to the list. I live in Western
> Montgomery Co. PA zone
> 6, and started my own landscaping from scratch 4 years ago
> on a 1/3 acre lot
> in a new subdivision. My goal is to have large perennial
> gardens with mostly
> sunny exposures, and also a shade garden on the Northwestern
> side of my
> house when the trees grow large enough to provide the
> necessary shade. My
> ground is heavy red clay and shale (could start my own
> earthenware pottery
> with the clay). It was formerly farm land and am looking for
> suggestions on
> plants that grow well in this environment and also how to
> amend the soil.
> I've been adding peat moss to the ground with good results.
>
> The summers tend to be hot and humid with dry spells, so I
> need plants that
> will tolerate droughts, we had a drought last year that was
> pretty severe. So
> far the plants doing well are coreopsis Moonbean and Zagreb,
> Sedum Autumn Joy
> and other sedums, daylillies, Russian sage, purple
> coneflower, santolina,
> lavender, gaillardia, pink evening primrose, lambs ears,
> hollyhocks, siberian
> iris, plumbago, columbine, snow in summer, veronica's,
> creeping thyme's,
> caryopteris, Clara Curtis chrysanthemums (althought the
> flowers are not as
> pretty as their picture showed), stokesia, dianthus, and
> rudbeckia goldstrum
> if I give it enough water.
>
> I haven't had good luck with baptisia, delphiniums, foxglove
> ( the dwarf
> yellow foxglove survived), aster frikarti "Monch" (which I
> really love),
> lavatera, purple homestead verbena, scabiosa "Blue
> Butterfly", artemesia
> "Silver Brocade" and shasta daisies.
>
> But I do have great luck with growing weeds.
>
> I am always on the lookout for new and different plants and
> would especially
> like to have more varieties of daylillies, especially
> daylillies that bloom
> in the late season. And also plants that flower in August and
> September. I
> spend way too much money on perennials, but everyone has to have an
> addiction, and my addiction to gardening is beneficial not harmful.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Christine Schultz
> Montgomery Co. PA
> Zone 6
>
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