Re: daisies for shade

Gene, I don't have too much trouble with "normal" asters, except that I
find they like a lot of sun. It's the woodland ones that don't grow at all
for me. Was I giving them TOO much sun? I was growing them in a former
gravel driveway. Maybe the soil there is not rich enough, compared to the
rich composted leaves they grow in under natural conditions, altho the
garden asters seem to like it. But your suggestion of inadquate moisture
puzzles me because, in the wild, these asters get only whatever rain Ma
Nature sends them and they seem to manage fine. I have seen them blooming
in the woods in very dry, even parched conditions. (I secretly wonder if
we have two different genera here and hereby signal all the taxonomic
splitters to come forth and sort this out!)

Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
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