Re: shade loving plants
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- Subject: Re: shade loving plants
- From: G*
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:13:32 -0500
Hello Anne,
Notice a couple of things to comment on in your enjoyable message. Thanks
for sharing.
Foxgloves.. try some of the perennial varieties. There are several that
are fully perennial and hard. D. ambigua (grandiflora) is a small yellow at
a bout two feet, D. X mertonensis get to be about 4 to 6 feet with large
shinny foliage and blooms the color of crushed strawberries. D. lanata is
another to try with strap-like foliage and D. lutea is another good one
that is stable. Foliage is evergreen. Cut them back for a second flush of
blooms later in the season.
There is a wide range of Monkshoods to play with for the summer and fall
garden. You could begin in June and go through November by selecting the
right ones for your garden. This is a subject that could take up several
messages or a new thread. many excellent one out there to pick form. Just
ask for blooming periods.
If you are having a problem finding reliable early spring bloomers why not
try the woodland wildflowers? There are many that persist all year in
foliage after the blooms and they are adapted to the crazy swings of
spring. A couple of examples... Hepatica species for dainty clumpers,
Uvularia species for upright show in several heights, and so on.
just a few thoughts this morning....
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
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> From: Anne Long <along@ameritech.net>
> Subject: shade loving plants
> Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:24 PM
snip ...snip.....
> August as well. Occasionally, I remember to add some oxgloves, (pinks,
> whites, or apricot) that are beautiful but don't persist for me.
> Monkshoods should also perform well, though my napellus blooms in June
> and the foliage then browns & fades away, and a tall late-blooming kind
> often doesn't bloom until October, a time when we're winding down in the
> garden. In decent soil with some peat, a clump of the shrub Leucothoe
> fontanesiana 'Rainbow' will provide almost evergreen foliage in green
> splashed with cream and pink -- a very nice accent.
>
> There are a whole bunch of spring-flowering shade plants as Kris P
> listed, but our Springs are so erratic and often cold that I tend to
> concentrate on plants that perform in summer when we can enjoy them.
>
> My bed is in a wide plot between two buildings, not under trees. The
> soil is rich and kept moist and there are no tree roots to compete with
> the plants. The bed looks good through summer heat and the few things
> that fade away are masked by the big foliage of hostas, ferns,
> rodgersias, and all those astilbes. Gardening under trees is a whole
> 'nother challenge, where the astilbes, ferns, etc. are less successful
> for me (we have mostly maples).
>
> Anne - Chicago
>
>
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