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Re: Shade Perennials

That is cute. One thing I would have loved to do with my daughter was fairy houses in the garden/woods. It was was why I got the first tellima. She never was that interested in the garden except for ripe cherry tomatoes and Monica's fresh peas. 

C



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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