Re: Shade garden/was Aconitum..

In a message dated 8/1/01 9:19:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
along@mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net writes:

<< sun garden. This section is mostly late blooming perennials. Having 
trouble coming
 > up with some new goodies to plant and fill out some of the bare sections. 
>>
 
Gene,

Not a perennial but treated as one is hydrangea paniculata. There are around 
a dozen forms in the market, some approaching the lacecap types. The idea 
here is that they bloom very late in the summer.  You can "stool" the shrub 
yearly and have a flowring plant around three feet high (zone 4). I first saw 
this done in the UK with this PG hydrangea and cotinus.  Both can stand this 
treatment and both will do fine in semi- shade to all shade.   I have a PG 
about five or six years old and I prune it back to three inches every spring 
- it is forming flower buds just now.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4 

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