Re: hellebores was: Shade Garden Gone?

Hi Ann,
I have been growing these beauties for decades in Atlanta and H. foetidus
has naturalized in my fron garden. About 12 species here now and all are
thriving (Zone 7a - very hot summers and dry, dry. dry). They do not mind
heat and drought, If you want info buy my new book Encyclopedia of Shade
Perennials (Timber Press - 30% off at Amazon.com). It has 11 color pix,
decribes over 30 species and varieties and 62 hellebore cultivars and
discusses both north and south cultivation. You want astilbes? Just as many
pix and info on them and 7,000 other species in 184 genera with 500 color
pix. Best George
W. George Schmid
Hosta Hill - Tucker Georgia USA
Zone 7a - 1188 feet AMSL
84-12'-30" West_33-51' North
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann James" <annfree@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] hellebores was: Shade Garden Gone?


> 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
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