Re: Bishop's gout and other weeds
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- Subject: Re: Bishop's gout and other weeds
- From: A* L* <a*@ameritech.net>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 17:26:17 -0700
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Daisy522 wrote:
>
> Thank you for all these great combo ideas! I have four large pots
> of my front porch. It faces south and doesn't get alot of sun.
> Can you suggest some good combos for this area? Thanks for your help
> Linda..Z7, Tn.
Linda, how much sun is 'not a lot'? If it's really shady, then hostas
can be pot plants par excellence. The leaves alone can be very colorful
with whites, gold, blues, as well as greens. If you want more color,
coleus are great too. The lime-green sweet potato vine can take quite
a bit of shade. There's a perennial ground cover called creeping jenny
(lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea')that comes in lime green too -- tiny
leaves that trail down the edge of a pot -- would set off some of the
bigger coleus that have lime green in their leaves. Lady's mantle is a
nice pot plant for some shade, as are some of the lower or trailing
campanulas.
Or how about a nice big fuchsia in each pot (upright ones) surrounded
by complimentary colors of impatiens & some ivies? I also like big
pots of the tuberous begonias, though both they and the fuchsias slow
down in flowering when temperatures get into the 90's -- but they
make a big comeback in the Fall.
Anne LD
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