Re: what to plant on the east side
- Subject: Re: [SG] what to plant on the east side
- From: B* P*
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:53:34 -0400
Gene Bush wrote
> Hello Bobbi,
> European ginger would be very nice... super clean, glossy green
foliage
> in the shape of hearts. they are a bit slower growing than our native and
> about half the height. I certainly enjoy mine here in my raised beds. Try
> with the other nice native ginger A. shuttleworthii. It turns beet-bronze
in
> the winter for a nice contrast...then alternate with clumps of Japanese
> painted x lady "Ghost" ferns in silver-gray that are stiffly upright and
> vase shaped in outline.
A number of years ago i provided a neighbor with european ginger for a
narrow strip on the northside of his garage. It has filled in completely. I
provided another neighbor Epimedium x rubrum for the northside of their
garage. it has also done handsomely. The ginger could crowd out and swamp
any interplanted ferns although Gene's suggestion would make a handsome
setting.
Bill Plummer
Painted Post, New York, USA
Zone 5
77º 07' 27'' West; 42º 09' 10" North
