Re: needs list of plants for z 5 anddeepshadewas:InterestedInShade Gardens -Reply

Goodness Penny!  Bless you and Beth and Bambi for going to all that
trouble to find this.  I looked in my files, but had not saved
it...better save it this time:-)  Had forgotten it altogether as it
has been a while.

What I said still stands for me, except for one plant, Brunnera
macrophylla.  I said it didn't like sun, which is what I thought.
But, I have been proven wrong.  In the interim, since I wrote that
post, some of mine seeded into an area that receives a lot of sun
(for my garden at any rate).  Not only sun, but they put themselves
on a pile of pure, unadulterated MD clay subsoil.  And, they are
flourishing like mad.  In fact, they seem to cope with high summer
better than those growing under the trees in the shade.  Now, whether
this is to do with the sun, the retentive clay that has no tree roots
in it, or what, I do not know.  But, thought I should set the record
straight here.  Seems to me that gardens north of mine would find
giving this plant some sun beneficial.  It still grows well and
flowers for me in deep shade under trees, too.

Thanks again for going to all that trouble...hope the list is
helpful, tho' it does contain several plants not suitable for zone 5.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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From: Penny Nielsen <NIELSENP@GOV.NS.CA>
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Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:21 AM

Hi Folks

Thanks go to Beth Matney, who has her private archives of gardens-L
posts
and was so generous to look up the post from Marge in reply to a post
from
Bambi Cantrell.   Beth and I doubt the archives at Gardens L go back
that
far.  I hope you will find it valuable - I know that I did as a
novice
shade gardener (still am).  Sending this in 2 posts, as it exceeds
200 lines.

Penny
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