Re: walnut tolerant plants
- Subject: Re: walnut tolerant plants
- From: Graham Rice g*@tiscali.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:51:50 -0500
"Pulmonarias are among the few perennials capable of surviving under
black walnut (Juglans nigra), which produces toxic allelochemicals
that prevent the growth of most plants under the tree's canopy."
From Pulmonarias and the Borage Family by Masha Bennett (recently out
from Timber Press).
Graham Rice
http://GrahamRice.com
>Thanks, Chris, for listing more walnut tolerant plants. I will probably go
>with mostly foliage plants since this bed is in the shade not only of the
>walnut and the house but several deciduous magnolias, and stuff just doesn't
>bloom there. But I am looking forward to trying several things that people
>mentioned.
>Gale - TN z6
>
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