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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Shade loving annuals

Beth Matney <bmatney@mail.snider.net> WROTE "need a list of shade loving
(or at least tolerant) easy annuals..didn't know what to tell them. Any
suggestions?

Beth.. I have a suggestion: tell em to go to a Borders Books & Cafe.. pull
a book called TAYLOR'S GUIDE TO SHADE GARDENING publisher HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
COMPANY 1994.. they can take the book to the coffee shop and "sip n'read."

otherwise, here's the Annual List, didn't read what is easy verses what is
hard.. but from that book, which also has colored photos & descriptions of
each plant.

Abutilon hybridum.."Flowering Maple"; Ageratum; Asperula
orientalis.."Woodruff"; Begonia; Chrysanthemum; Cirsium "Plumed Thistle";
Cleome "Spider Flower"; Coleus; Collinsia "Bluelips"; Consolida "Rocket
Larkspur"; Cosmos; Dianthus "Sweet William"; Digitalis purpurea 'Foxy'
"Annual Foxglove"; Eustoma grandiflora "Prairie Gentian"; Exacum affine
"Persian Violet"; Helianthus annuus "Common Sunflower"; Impatiens ;
Lobularia maritima "Sweet Alyssum"; Lunaria annua "Honesty"; Lupinus
subcarnosus "Bleuebonnet"; Machaeranthera tanacetifolia "Tahoka Daisy";
Malcolmia maritima "Virginia Stock"; Mattthiola longipetala "Evening
Stock"; Mimulus guttatus "Monkey Flower"; Myosotis sylvatica "Forget me
not"; Nemophila maculata "Five Spot"; Nicotiana alata "Flowering Tobacco";
Nierembergia hippomanica var. vilacea 'Purple Robe' "Cupflower"; Oenothera
erythrosepala "Evening Primrose"; Omphalodes linifolia "Navelwort";
Pelargonium X domesticum "Martha Washington Geranium"; Penstemon
"Gloxinia"; Primula malacoides "Fairy Primrose"; Reseda alba "White
Mignonette"; Rudbeckia hirta 'Gloriosa Daisy' "Black eyed Susan"; sabatia
angularis "Rose Gentian"; Schizanthus X wisetonensis "Butterfly Flower";
Senecio X hybridus "Cineraria"; Torenia fournieri "Wishbone flower";
Trachelium caeruleum "Throatwort"; Viola tricolor "Johnny jump up"; Viola x
wittrockiana "Pansy"...

hope this helps
Bill Nash Guelph Ontario Canada Zone4 <raffi@sympatico.ca>
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