Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #117
- Subject: Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #117
- From: m*@horizonview.net (Melissa Hellen)
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:50:18 GMT
On Mon, 5 May 2003 23:01:00 -0500, some mardy inna cardy wrote:
>
>I'm partial to anything that will actually grow and bloom. I have
>VERY bad luck with any sort of clematis - any time.
That's me, too. I had several I was fond of, but made the mistake of
getting my fall clematis too near them--it's native here,
apparently--and it crowded them right out. Did the same thing to my
ajuga/bugleweed. . . what are we calling that stuff these days?
Anyway, I planted the burgundy and the variegated close together and
in a year or two the variegated disappeared.
Usually, if I don't do something stupid like the above, clematis will
grow well for me. I always assumed that was because I tend to favor
shady, woodsy, acid-y sorts of yards when I buy a house and, so long
as I follow the old dictum for clematis (wet, cool, shady feet and
head in the sun) they do well for me.
At times I've created the wet cool shady by plopping a rock or two on
top of the spot where I planted. It seems to work.
Melis
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