Dry Shade -Reply

the plants I have successfully grown in DRY
shade (and I'll include a few shrubs)

Aronia (chokecherry)
Epimedium
Vinca
Hosta
Lamium
Foxglove
Columbine
Aconitum (monkshood)
Chleone (turtlehead)
Valerian officianalis
Japanese anemones 
Dicentra (bleeding heart)
Sarcococca

With a little summer watering, you could grow
even more things, but thi should give you many
seasons of bloom.


>>> "Bosco, Mimi"
<mbosco@metropo.mccneb.edu> 06/18/98
06:36am >>>
I'm looking for something (besides plastic
flamingos and twirling
sunflowers) that can prosper in a small (1 foot
by 6 feet) raised shade
bed.  The eaves of the house keep this area
dry--really dry.  

The location is beautiful--when you round a
corner of the house, it
almost takes you by surprise.  When we moved
in I thought, "What a
beautiful spot!  I can't believe they didn't have
something growing
here!"  Now I'm thinking, "What a spot!  I can't
believe they thought
something might grow here!"

I've been checking my reference books (thanks
to everyone for their
suggestions--I'm off to a great start), but all the
shade loving plants
also seem to like moist soil.  We've had rain
like you wouldn't believe
here, and I've been sloshing through mud every
day to water this tiny
bed!  Nothing's growing except my frustration.  

Any and all suggestions gratefully accepted,

Mimi from Omaha, Zone 5
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