Re: thanks and bio

Susan,
I see you grow jacobs Ladder, what colour or name do you grow and how
do you find it.  I am looking for a yellow flowering variety with silver
foliage??
Seed of course as cannot buy in plant material.  At present I have White,
Careulum (Blue) and a low growing pink with yellow centre (the foliage is a
deeper green with out spreading growth habit instead of upright)
Am very interested to hear other peoples comments on the exciting plant.
For example had the Careulum for sale at a market stall and it accounted
for
46% of total sales - ran out the door, so many people had never seen it
before.
Lara
Ngaruawahia
NZ

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> From: Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
> To: 'shadegardens list' <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
> Cc: 'perennials' <perennials@mallorn.com>
> Subject: thanks and bio
> Date: Saturday, 24 January 1998 06:47
> 
> 	Thanks very much to all who responded to my inquiry about using
> Aconitum episcopale in partial shade.  This question highlights an
> interesting point:  that diverse factors such as heat, humidity, wind,
> source and angle of light, and so on can be crucial in determining
> whether or not you have an appropriate microclimate within your garden
> for a plant to do well in a different "shade" situation (or zone, for
> that matter) than recommended in a catalogue.
> 	Let me introduce myself a little bit.  My name is Susan
> Campanini and I have been gardening in east central Illinois for over 30
> years.  Three summers ago, we moved to a new house after gardening for
> over 14 years on the other side of town. Fortunately, we were able to
> take divisions of many of the plants we had grown in our prior garden,
> and many of them have done very well.  We've also added a great many
> plants since then.
> 	This yard has large older trees at each of the four corners of
> the double lot--a pin oak, a hard maple, and two locusts--and a large
> ash outside the fence on the west side of the property.  The whole north
> yard is quite shady.  The east side is sunny and is thus the home of
> eight large rectangular raised beds and six smaller square raised beds
> (four landscape timbers high), where we grow a large range of rock
> garden and alpine plants and some small sun-loving perennials.
> 	Along both sides of the east fence, the beds are filled with
> border perennials, roses, clematis, shrubs, and spring-blooming bulbs of
> all types.  Under the maple, the pin oak, and the ash, we have larged
> raised shade beds with natural log edging, filled with ferns,
> rhododendrons, azaleas, pieris, epimedium, pulmonaria, tons of hostas,
> heuchera, tricyrtis, trollium, Japanese anemone, amsonia, chelone,
> brunnera, lamium, prunella, trillium, wood poppy, hellebores, solomon's
> seal, jacob's ladder, wild geranium, some japanese woodlanders, zillions
> of shade-tolerant spring-blooming bulbs, and . . . . lots of other
> plants I can't think of right now since I'm at the office--with snow on
> the ground outside the window!
> 	For many years, we grew 1500 plants or more from seed every
> winter under lights in our basement, labeled everything with botanical
> names, and recorded bloom times and other information faithfully in a
> journal.  The move to the new place involved a lot of work with
> transplanting, a house without a basement, and, overall, a carefully
> thought out decision to focus on maintaining and enjoying the garden
> without constant pressure for expansion and time spent on record keeping
> and labeling, so we're gardening a little more informally now as a
> result (good thing too, for two middle-aged gardeners with full-time
> jobs and twelve other passionate hobbies!).
> 	Let me add a few personal notes.  My husband loves gardening as
> much as I do and it's a good team because he's great at all the heavy
> work and construction involved in gardening and I'm an info-hound who
> loves to find out about new plants and their cultural requirements and
> plan the design and color mixes. We also love animals (we have six cats,
> two dwarf rabbits, and eight finches) and so have planted many shrubs
> and perennials that attract birds and butterflies. 
> 	The Midwest is a particularly interesting and challenging place
> to garden because of the wide range of climates and the
> unpredictability.  I love hearing about other people's gardening
> interests and challenges in other regions.  It's the other people
> connecting to one another that makes the Internet such a wonderful tool
> for any sort of information.
> 
> Happy Gardening!
> Susan  
>  
> Susan Campanini
> in east central Illinois
> zone 5b, min temp -15F×
> e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
> 
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