Re: Another Front Yard Problem
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- Subject: Re: Another Front Yard Problem
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 05:27:34 -0500
Here's a web page with a large list of plants known to survive walnut
trees...not all of them are for deep shade and it is likely that not
all of them are hardy for you, but...it's a start.
http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/bwtol.html
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: lil tovey <liltovey@hotmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2000 7:58 PM
>
> Hi
>
> I really need help. My front yard faces kind of south, south-west,
with
> white house on the north side. Morning sun is blocked with 3 mature
(really
> big canopy) Black Walnut trees, noon sun is non exixtent and
afternoon sun
> is blocked with Maple tree and neigbors house which sits much
closer to the
> street than ours. We had the walnuts trimmed last fall so it may (I
hope) be
> shade instead of DEEP shade this year. I've spent a fortune trying
to get
> something that will tolerate the black walnuts as well as the
shade. Even my
> poor hostas seem stunted. My cousin gave me some solomon seal last
summer,
> and that seems to be surviving. Everything else really seems to
suffer. Most
> things that will tolerate the walnuts need a bit more sun than I
have. Front
> yard is approx 75' x 90' so I have a lot of territory to cover.
Need
> something for beds in front of the house as well as the front.
Green alone
> can be so boring! I'm in the northern part of Zone 6.
>
> Any help or suggestions will really be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lillian
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