Re: Shade Perennials

Tellima and 'Forest Frost'...see the link below...this is a pretty  forest 
dweller and there's a cute comment under Rainy Side Notes halfway  down the 
page:
 
_http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/nativeplants/Tellima_grandi
flora.html_ 
(http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/nativeplants/Tellima_grandiflora.html) 
 
 
In a message dated 8/29/2009 6:35:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
cherylisaak@comcast.net writes:

So Gene,  does some of that Tellima need a good home?? ;)


Chris, I'll be  looking for Forest Frost

I do have one thing that  seems to thrive  in the dry part shade - 
Greek Foxglove was the name I was given it when I  got it from a 
fellow gardener. It a tall flowering stalk with smallish  yellow to 
tan flowers. The one or two plants have become many and shared  around 
widely.

Cheryl

>Chris,
>    H.  Dale's Variety has been a good performer for me over the years.
>Never  the same twice... always changing in color. Tellima remains in  my
>garden without fanfare... I carried it in the inventory once and  could not
>give it away. I have not seen Forest Frost, so will reserve  judgment 
there.
>with all the emphasis on heuchera and its forms, kind  of hard to get a
>gardener to think about tellima. Market is already far  too crowded with
>heuchera.
>    You are correct in that  tellima performs like a champ in a very
>neglected and dry spot in the  garden.
>
>Gene E. Bush
>Munchkin Nursery &  Gardens,LLC
>www.munchkinnursery.com
>Garden Writer - Photographer  -  Lecturer
>
>
>
>-----Original  Message-----
>From: owner-perennials@hort.net  [o*@hort.net] On 
Behalf
>Of Christopher P.  Lindsey
>Subject: Re: Shade Perennials
>
>Hear, hear!   I really like Heuchera americana 'Dale's Variety' [1]
>and let's not  forget Tellima grandiflora[2]!  Fringe cups have always
>done well  for me in dry shade, and I especially like the cultivar
>'Forest Frost'  [3].
>
>[1]
>http://www.dyckarboretum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_
i
>d=97
>[2]
>http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/nativeplants/Tellima_grandi
f
>lora.html
>[3]
>http://www.rainyside.com/features/plant_gallery/perennials/Tellima_grandifl
o
>raForestFrost.html
>
>Chris
>
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Cheryl Isaak
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