Re: [SG] Introduction/ Color in Shade

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> From: Barry Rofman <edick@HOME.COM>
> Subject: [SG] Introduction
> Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 11:53 PM
Hello Rebecca,
        You are right, there is no reason not to have plenty of color in the shade
garden. You are off to a good start with the shrubs. Azaleas can provide
some very colorful accents along with Rhodies.
        Some of my favorite combinations and plants for color are the Hellebores
combined with Primula veris and vulgaris. Think burgundy or rose of
hellebore combined with yellow of veris in small drifts and set off with
the blue lungworts. One could also go to the red end of the combination
with Primula vulgaris or the lungworts. All at the base or drifting through
the Azaleas and Rhodies. Try the little ground cover woodland anemones such
as A. ranunculoides for bright, waxy, yellow blooms. Columbines come in
just about all colors and variations. Spigellia or Wormroot, with its
bright red tubes set off by yellow flares is a favorite summer bloomer.
Gentians with blue blooms are great accompanied by yellows. For fall try
the Monkshoods and Japanese Anemone hybrids. There are also many asters for
shade that are colorful in native and hybrids along with goldenrods.
        Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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> > mentioned. In the back, a mixed border with holly, witch hazel, azaleas
> > and rhodos as anchors and perhaps hydrangeas, hosta, astilbes,
waxbells,
> > bleeding heart, foamflower, lungwort and ferns, or some combination
> > thereof, between. I jut moved from a house with a large perennial shade
> > garden (modified though not designed by me) which lacked color, nice as
> > it was, and I'm very anxious to not repeat that pattern with this
space.
> >
> > Forgive the length. It won't happen again.
> >
> > Rebecca R.
> > Providence, RI, Zone 6
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