Re: favorite shade plants

Chris, your problems with Hakonechloa may be, unfortunately, that it falls
into the category of plants you just can't grow.  Despite my very difficult
soil, the strange tale of which I have related here in the past, Hakonechloa
macra Aureoloa does very well for me.  Light shade with dappled sun and some
direct, moisture in good years, pretty dry in bad.  Of course, I can't grow
any Heuchera, Calycanthus or Weigelia, but that's another story.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b WV
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:23 AM
Subject: 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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