Flowers for the Shade
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Flowers for the Shade
- From: "* D* C* <m*@PIPELINE.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:03:50 -0500
At 12:23 AM 2/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Since the redwood is bringing its shade to the cut flower garden, my other
>quest is flowers good for cutting that grow well in shade.
Hello, and welcome. If your redwoods are not so large as to cause more
than dappled shade in the spring, you might be able to grow
primroses...there are so many types, but I have found that auriculas and
polyanthus are the easiest to grow. Mine get quite a bit of sun in the
spring before the trees leaf out, then they are in shade throughout the
summer. For part/light shade, nothing beats the fragrance of the tree
peony (unnamed varieties can be purchased for $10.00 or less apiece). It
grows so slowly that you may never see it looking like a shrub rather than
a woody perennial. Then there are all those georgeous woodland perennials,
like Trilliums, Dicentras, Arisaemas, etc. Gene, jump right in here! I
have a few wildflowers, but have not found any to be particularly fragrant,
at least not pleasantly so.
Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Niles, MI USA, Z 5/6
