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Re: Question about Fall Planting, Tenn Z 7

I second the motion about planting this fall.  Especially since that big
tree will have moved right in to your nicely prepared beds if you leave
them fallow over winter and you will find them full of tree roots when you
go to plant next spring!  It will move into the beds as soon as it can, but
if you can plant in fall, your perennials will have a chance to establish
root growth before the tree roots arrive.

There are tons of perennials for shade in USDA z. 7.  Those that I find
tolerate dry shade under trees especially well are:

Pulmonaria
Brunnera
Begonia grandis (Hardy Begonia)
Arum (Wild Ginger), including:  A. canadense (deciduous), A. europaeum
(evergreen) and Arum italicum 'Pictum' (deciduous with lovely variegated
foliage)
Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea'
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)
Geranium macrorrhizum
Liriope
Podophyllum peltatum (Mayapple)
Polygonatum, any species (Solomon's Seal)
Sedum spectabile

The trick may be finding these guys at the local nursery this fall.  There
are, of course, others, these just do well for me in competition with tree
roots.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor:  Gardening in Shade
http://www.suite101.com
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> From: Miles, Curtis <miles@hspower.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 03, 1997 4:49 PM
> 
> Hello, fellow-gardeners, 
> I would like to introduce myself by way of this first post, although I
have learned a lot reading others' posts over the past few months.  I am a
fairly new perennial gardener and there is much to learn.  I will be
visiting my father in Memphis TN, (zone 7?) in October, and want to help
him prepare small perennial bed(s) for his small space, which contains a
very large tree that keeps most in shade, or part-shade, and on the dry
side.  My thought was prepare the soil in the bed(s) this visit, and then 
in a spring visit, help him plant the beds with perennials.  But I'd really
like to plant something!
> 	My question is, is there anything we could fall-plant that would survive
over the winter, other than pansies, which aren't really perennials, and
maybe mums? Bulbs would need to go in later in the winter, I believe. It
seems I have heard you can plant some perennial plants in the fall, but I
can't locate the information.  Any ideas here would be much appreciated.  
> 
> Barb
> 
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