Re: favorite shade plants

Hello Chris,
    I do not have a definite answer to your lack of success with
Hakonechloa. I can tell you that all three of mine are doing well in the
same environment. They are on a hillside with good drainage, decent soil and
get mulched with chopped leaves in the fall. Lots of light on the north side
of a hill. Some direct sun during the first part of the day. Of the three
white variegated, only one remains alive 3 years later. Of the gold
variegated, one out of two. The species is the best one of the bunch. Really
great grower and looks good. Have astrantia with my species. Remember, the
more white in the foliage the less chlorophyll it can take in, thus slower.
Gold is really a shade of green, so does better than the white.
    In the nursery I can tell you that they seem to be sensitive to
transplanting at all stages. I have grown them from tissue culture to pints,
to 5 pints pots. Each stage I loose some of them. They just sit there and
dwindle away. Rest go on.... have no explanation. Most I lost was from
ordering 4 inch transplants this spring... lost about 25 percent of them
when potting up to 5 pint.
    I forgot to hold back some of the white variegated for my own garden
this spring and now I have to go out and locate some more for my own
garden....sigh.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
>    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).
>
> Chris

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