Re: Shade Garden Gone?

This list used to be called the primrose list but about 2 (?) years ago it
changed to encompass the shade garden. Some still have it marked Primroses
so that is why it comes up from time to time.

At 09:36 AM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:

I don't know why, but when I hit reply it throws up an address of Primroses,
which is not anything I've joined.  So, hoping I'm still in Shade Gardens,
which I did join, here goes.

Gene, I have no idea what kind of cyclamen these are, as I just got them at
a local nursery last year and they have survived all this time and are
looking nice and eager right now.  I had thought they would all fade into
the woodwork, so to speak, during the summer, but they didn't, and I had
little hope they would flourish again.  But there they are, looking good.  A
rewarding plant and a pretty one.

The helleborus I have out back in that too-wet place are niger and
orientalis.  It looks like I've lost one, for there's a stake with no plant
beside it, and I expect it fell to sheepdog feet.  The ones in front, where
we sometimes have deer feet, are some hybrid that Wayside Gardens offers and
are supposed to have up to a five month bloom period.  They call them
Heritage hellebores.

I have no idea whether caladiums are in the arum family.  I plant as many of
the white ones with green veins as I can crowd into the ground for summer
coolness effect, and most of them come back annually.  They won't come back
up till the ground's quite warm, which gives me time to enjoy the pansies or
snaps or whatever I stick in every fall for color in what passes for winter
here.

As you can likely tell, my  theory of gardening is if you have weeds you
haven't planted near enough stuff you like yet.  And pretty much the only
place where we do have weed problems is that bed by the fence that stays
wet.  Obviously I haven't planted near enough stuff. I guess I should have
left the ferns alone that were there, but they are so gross after a freeze.
As bad as banana plants, just not as huge.  And they are sprouting anew
anyhow, so I guess they will always be with me.

Ann James (Zone 8)














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