Re: Choosing perennials

> Columbines, also known as aquilegia, bloom well in the shade and even
> prefer shade. They have pretty foilage that lasted all winter through zone
> 8's mild winter and very interesting flowers. The flowers come in blue,
> red, yellow, and some types have several pastel colors in one flower. 

We tend to have the hybrids die out pretty quickly, and since they
colonize and reseed rather than truly being a hugely long-lived
perennial, combining the pastel hybrids anywhere near (eg miles ;-) )
the species strong red and yellow tend to produce muddy-coloured
offspring.  McKana's Giants just don't do well in my heat at all and
don't bloom profusely.   You *do* get interesting crosses with red and
yellow mixes due to these plants' promiscuity but the hybrid ones just
don't do well this far south (or at least this hot combined with our
humidity, dunno if the humidity plays a role).

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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