Re: Shade garden/was Aconitum..

Hello Claire,
    Certainly did not think of that one. Thank you. don't know if there is room in
the area I am playing in, but may work elsewhere. I only have 3 to 4 feet to play
along either side of a path.
    We are still purchasing Itea, hydrangea and Viburnum to use as a back drop to
the east side of the shade garden. Hope to get those in this fall when it cools
down a bit. Trying to keep the birds in mind as we plant.
    Incidentally, for those of you not familiar with itea, there are many sizes
and the foliage in fall is just as colorful, if not more so, that a blooming
perennial. We have 3 we purchased last year and planted of the cultivar 'Merlot".
Absolutely stunning. Wine reds, brick red, lemon yellow, bronze and green ... all
along a single limb, them multiplied over the entire shrub.
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <ECPep@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Shade garden/was Aconitum..


> 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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