Re: [SG] dry shade---Bergenia
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- Subject: Re: [SG] dry shade---Bergenia
- From: M* T* <m*@CLARK.NET>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 02:19:35 -0500
Well, that's totally ratty, Nancy, as I have managed to kill some in
exactly the kind of soil/sun, etc. conditions you say yours are reveling
in....plus in the same that yours didn't like. sigh...
How's the humidity at night where you are in summer? Do your nights cool
down below 70F in high summer?
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@INTERPORT.NET>
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:35 AM
>
> Clyde et al.: I'll put in my two cents. My bergenias really languished in
a
> bed of nice amended clay soil that gets two to three hours of strong
> (midday) sunlight a day. But when I moved them to my worst spot
(unamended
> clay soil, no direct sunlight, terrible circulation) where only corydalis
> lutea and epimediums have survived, they really took off. Go figure.
> The "unkillable" plant I can't grow is pulmonaria.
> Nancy S. (in NYC)
