Re: Designing a Shade Garden

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• Subject: Re: Designing a Shade Garden
• From: G* +* M* L* <g*@ibm.net>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:57:32 -0600
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Rosemary Carlson wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone: I'm in the process of designing and planting a shade 
> garden under a tree that's getting large - dry shade. Morning sun
> only - filtered.
> I'm looking for plants that will give me some color in high summer. My
> bleeding hearts are still blooming - so that's good. Hostas will bloom
> soon. What shade plant(s) would you recommend for summer color? 
> 
> Rosemary in Kentucky
> zone 6a

I have the following 3 perennials that have been blooming 
for about a week, growing in partial shade, not damp, but
not bone dry, all 12" to 20":

  Delphinium grandiflorum 'Blue Mirror' - one of my 
  favourite perennials.  Forms a mound 18" high, covered
  in dark blue flowers.

  Lysimachia punctata - Yellow loosestrife.  Sends up flower
  spikes with yellow, star-shaped flowers about the size of
  a quarter.

  Campanula punctata - Reddish, bell-shaped flowers.


Both Lysimachia punctata and Campanula punctata are vigorous
(i.e. invasive).  I have put all of these two plants in 'jail' - 
confined to 2 or 3 gallon pots sunken into the flower bed to
keep them from spreading. 

Glen in Regina, SK, zone 3, Canadian prairies
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