Re: Dry shade perennials/shrubs
- To: "'perennials'"
- Subject: Re: Dry shade perennials/shrubs
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:25:34 -0500
Well, Susan, Diane suggested some good ones. Rather depends on what
you're wanting and what you've already got there....and whether you
can water enough and what the soil is like....
Any way, I have most of my garden under mature trees, competing madly
with their greedy root systems - wrote a 10 part series on Planting
Under Trees a year or so ago in case you're interested. In my new
Article Index (see SIG), hit the quick link to In Marge's Garden and
scroll down for them. Off the top of my cranium...
Brunnera macrophylla - tolerates these conditions if you can water
Asarum canadensis - (wild ginger) does quite well for me right up
around the base of a maple (Acer spp) and between it and a dogwood
(Cornus florida) - both greedy root trees
Arisaema - (jack-in-pulpit) assorted
Begonia grandis (hardy begonia)
Hosta - assorted if you can water
Tricyrtis - (toad lily) assorted if you can water
Ferns - assorted...see current article for some to die for - can't
have too many
Hellebores - if you can water
Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's breeches) - disappears in summer.
Pachysandra terminalis
Narcissus - assorted - the common daffs do well for me under trees;
the more showy and expensive kind want more coddling and sun.
Galanthus nivea (snowdrops)
Pulmonaria - assorted - Mrs. Moon tolerates about anything tho' will
get mildew if too dry
Scilla campanulata (old Endymion hispanicus) now Hyacinthoides
hispanica - woods hyacinth -seeds around like mad and forms drifts
over time - actually any of the 'minor' bulbs are very nice under
trees as they are early and gone by the time the trees leaf out and
most will seed around madly.
Arum italicum
Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot)
Lamiastrum galeobdolon (tho' you want to think twice about letting
this loose in a border)
Podophyllum peltatum (common mayapple)
Now, these are all doing well under my trees on the east
coast....your mileage may differ.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
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> From: Saxton, Susan <SSaxton@Schwabe.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:14 PM
>
> Any suggestions? I have a difficult area under a mature ornamental
plum. I
> have been successful with many, many plants in this location, but
still have
> "bare spots" in this large bed that I'd like to fill. It does get
> supplemental water, but the tree leafs out in March through Oct.
This area
> would get early morning sun and late afternoon sun only. The tree
is limbed
> up and thinned out well, it is not dense, dark shade. The problem
is more
> the dry soil. TIA.
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