Re: hellebores was: Shade Garden Gone?
- Subject: Re: [SG] hellebores was: Shade Garden Gone?
- From: Ann James a*@EARTHLINK.NET
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:39:38 -0600
Marge,
No, there's not much information available about hostas or hellebores this
far south. Astilbes, either, and I'm trying all of them. Hostas were so
unknown down here that Texas A&M commissioned a study of them over a period
of years, and now you stumble across them in the garden shops with some
regularity. Not a lot, but I've seen a couple in different shops. I have
not, however, seen any hellebores locally except in my beds.
Oddly enough, the astilbes I got mail order from White Flower Farm were
thought to be dormant, yet as soon as I got them in the ground their little
carrot tops sprang up everywhere. It should be an interesting spring.
Ann James
Zone 8
