Re: Check out A Ho-Hum Plant- Epimedium

Hello Gale,
    All of the plants you mention here were companions to each other in a
newly renovated bed I completed this fall. Large raised bed that had a white
blooming redbud about halfway up the length. Has a spread of about 20 to 25
feet now. Since the bed has a path on two sides, it gets viewed "in the
round" so to speak. I saved some special hellebore hybrids for this bed. The
ones with red and white blooms. Also used quite a few primula in the bed.
Several forms of P. veris, including a double. There is also some epimedium
in red, some tall upright ferns, trillium and hepatica. Oh, and as one comes
down some steps on the back side of the bed, there is a hypertufa trough
that now needs to be planted in minis.
    I still have not had an opportunity to collect most of the more common,
much less jump into  all the more rare epimedium out there now. I do have
several cultivars of hardy cyclamen on order now for spring deliver while
they are dormant. Nice little ridge under some pines that has halfway decent
soil that I think would look great with ferns and cyclamen, hepatica.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> I can't get to the NY Times link because I don't have a password.  But -
> epimedium a ho-hum plant?!!  I have loved them for years and years.  They
have
> such beautiful evergreen leaves and will even compete with grass, they
never
> give up.  They grow just as well here on lime and clay as they did for me
in
> sandy acid soil.  And the flowers in the spring are a great bonus.  I have
just
> now (since joining this list) begun to find how many kinds there are (that
I
> don't have!) and am making plans for a vast collection, even if I have to
> uproot some things that don't do as well.
>
> And also a vast collection of hellebores, something I sort of neglected
till
> recently and have fallen in love with.
>
> And hardy cyclamen - the ones at the farm (with the sandy acid soil) were
a
> fabulous blooming ground cover in November.  They have seeded themselves
more
> and more over the years.  I'm just starting to get them going here on the
clay
> but the most recent ones look like surviving.
>
> It looks like I will have home grown tomatoes till well into December -
the
> ones I picked green before first frost are getting ripe and delicious.
And
> there were still yellow leaves on the trees until a couple of days ago.
>
> Gale Link - Nashville z6

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