Re: Filipendula rubra
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- Subject: Re: Filipendula rubra
- From: M* T*
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:41:46 -0500
Val,
I, too grow this in really less than ideal conditions for it. It's in the
back corner of a bed right next to the house on the east side, shaded all
summer by a huge oak tree. If the poor things get any full sun, it's only
for an hour or so in late morning. Soil is clay based...was dug over
semi-well with organic material incorporated, but the basic stuff was a
combo of subsoil used in backfilling the area and original woods soil full
of tree roots. It gets dry in summer even with watering - soil cracks, it
gets so dry.
The Filipendula grows, spreads very slowly and blooms; leaves tend to brown
out by mid to late summer, depending on extend of summer drought in a
particular year, but always after bloom. But, by that time, the
yellow-twig dogwood and lilac 'Miss Kim' rather hide it from view...the
blooms sort of wave over top of these shrubs. In really bad years, it will
be totally defoliated by August....except for a couple of sad leaves at
ground level.
So the answer is, as Jaime said, yes, you can grow this in less than ideal
conditions, but I have this feeling that the closer you can come to a nice
moist soil, the better your plants would look.
I consider 11 am to 5 pm to be total full sun in my garden where that's a
bit more than my "sunny" areas ever get :-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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>
> Valerie Lowery@ZEON
> 02/24/99 08:02 AM
>
> Fellow listmates:
>
> how crucial is it for the above-named perennial to get a lot of moisture?
> Everywhere I've read about this plant it claims that it needs a
constantly
> moist soil; however, I've seen it paired with plants that do pretty darn
> well in my dry yard in amended clay soil (like malvas and boltonias).
>
> Does anyone have success with this plant in otherwise less-than-idea
> conditions? I'm planning on putting this in partial sun (it gets sun all
> day up to 5:00 pm). What do you have it paired with? Does it last long
in
> bloom? Is it a good cut flower? (I see visions of this with roses...)
>
>
> Val in KY
> zone 6a
>
>
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