Re: New subscriber

Welcome Christine!
I'm down the road from you in Chester County.  Same clay soil.  No fun, is it?
Barb
(southeastern PA, zone 6/7)

CSch999930@aol.com wrote:

> 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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