Re: Actaea Rubra


Thanks Paul.  That's what I needed to know.  My garden won't
be suitable.  I'll look for other things.

Louise

> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:11:06 EST
> From: Meum71@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Actaea Rubra
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2000 1:53:31 AM Central Standard
Time,
> louise@the-english-family.freeserve.co.uk writes:
>
> << Does anyone have any experience of growing this plant.
One
>  source says "dry" shade, another "moist".  As I have an
>  abundance of dry shade in my garden, I would need to make
>  sure I was buying a suitable plant.
>
>  Thanks
>  Louise, Surrey, England
>   >>
>
> Actea rubra or "Red Baneberry" does best in well drained
soil that holds
> moisture-they do not like real dry soils.  In the wild
they tend to grow on
> pieces of soil that are a little higher than surrounding
wet soil.
>
> They like a rich woodland soil with a good amount of leaf
mold.
>
> In my dry woodland garden they do not do that well, I have
a number of the
> white berried form that have seeded them selves in
diffrent areas, but I do
> not get nice large plants except when we have two wet
summers in a row.
>
> Paul


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