Re: Steep area in shade
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Steep area in shade
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- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:11:40 -0400
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Why didn't I think of that over on the gardens list. I do grow it on a fairly steep bank also. How about ajuga which I have on the same bank?
Penny in Halifax, N.S. 5/6a
>>> zumach@EXECPC.COM 04/25/00 07:49PM >>>
Hi Arnhild--I have had very good results in a similar situation using
lamiastrum galeobdolon 'Variegatum'. (Yellow Archangel). It spreads fast,
is easily propagated by stem cuttings, and does well with soil retention on
slopes.
Hank Zumach
Stoddard, WI
zone 4B
----- Original Message -----
From: Arnhild Bleie <abbl@ONLINE.NO>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:36 PM
Subject: [SG] Steep area in shade
> Hi all
> - I need a lot of good suggetions from you to a new very steep part of my
> wilderness that I want to start some gardening in. Wild ferns seem to
> dominate this area now that could be about 10 x 15 meters.
> I started to 'clean up' and made a ziczac walk downsloaps here yesterday
> .... it is fading east/north east - it is is along a waterfall and a
> difficulty part of a longer walk I try to make along it.
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> It certainly a shady part of garden - with some big trees at the bottom,
> make even the morningsun not come much through here. Soil seem to be heavy
> - full of organic stuff. And it is not the shade that is my problem - but
> that is is so VERY steep - maybe 1:1 ... so I want suggestion on
something
> that do not break down by first strong wind or rainfall.
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> I suppose some the ferns will still be there, but I want something else
> too. But it must be something that NOT need lots of care/cutting and so on
> because it is about impossible to walk here.
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> Thanks if someone can help with suggestions.
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> :) Arnhild
> - z8'er in chilly latitude 60 - Hardanger in Norway
> *All the flowers of all the of tomorrows are in the seeds of today* -
> Proverb from India
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