Re: favorite shade plants

> My favorite shade plants are epimediums, the gold grass hakonechloa aureola 
> (japanese forest grass) brunneras, hostas.  

Hi, 

   What's the secret to growing Hakonechloa?  I've tried and tried and 
   tried, but it always wastes away to a sprig or two.  I'm ready to
   give up since it's not a cheap plant to experiment with!

   So far I've tried dry shade, moist shade, dry shade with morning
   sun, moist shade with morning sun, dry shade with afternoon sun,
   and moist shade with afternoon sun.  The plants just seem to waste
   away (although I'm sure it doesn't help that I've seen the local
   rabbit population munching on them as well).

   Oh, and no posting about Hakonechloa is complete without a link to
   the funniest post about it in the archives:
   
      http://www.hort.net/lists/perennials/mar01/msg00020.html

   So, what's the secret?

Chris

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