Re: favorite shade garden book
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- Subject: Re: [SG] favorite shade garden book
- From: K* C*
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:57:20 -0500
- References: <00d001bffb65$ac16b060$d669cfa9@execpc.com> <39864365.40ABCC75@earthlink.net>
At 11:26 PM -0400 7/31/00, marilyn wrote:
>Hi, Hank, my most favorite shade gardening book is The Natural Shade
>Garden, by Ken Druse. The pictures are wonderful, and it made me
>thrilled to find so many things that could grow in the shade.
But I would not recommend that book for you. I found the pickings
pretty poor for zone 4 and colder climate plants.
Druse seems to think that oak-leafed hydrangea will grow in Minneapolis. Ha.
Karen. [though Marilyn is correct: the pictures are quite nice]
