> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:01:01 -0500
> From: perennials-owner@hort.net
> To: perennials-digest@hort.net
> Subject: perennials DIGEST V3 #122
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> perennials DIGEST Thursday, June 18 2015 Volume 03 : Number 122
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> Re: your thoughts please
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:47:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <1002@rewrite.hort.net>
> Subject: Re: your thoughts please
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> > Okay - I have been yearning to grow Cimicifuga 'Hillside Black
> > Beauty’ for eons. But it wants damp shade, but while I have shade,
> > it’s dry as a bone.
> >
> > IF I can dig a big deep hole and line it with a pot, can I create a
> > “damp spot. I’m thinking lots of peat/coir and maybe landscape
> > fabric to help repel roots from creeping in….
> >
> > Could it work?
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> Hi Cheryl,
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> I forget where you are. How hot does it get by you?
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> Generally speaking, I don't think it needs a ton of water once
> it's established. You might want to give it more in the beginning,
> but make them good, deep waterings so the roots aren't tempted
> to stay near the surface. And, of course, mulch is going to be
> your friend.
>
> If you can amend the whole bed to be loamy then you're going to
> have an easy time, but if you just make a hole for this plant with
> amendments then the roots are never going to move outside of
> that hole. So if you amend, make sure the hole is big! :)
>
> Chris
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