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Re: [PRIMROSES] Planting under trees was: New Member Bio

Hi Marge  - here are a few more plants for dry shade as long as you can
water  once a week or so - I have acid sandy soil and the plants have to
compete with poplar, aspen and maple roots.

The foam flowers once establlished  will tolerate dry shade - Tiarella
cordifolia, wherryi and polyphylla.
The heucheras - many species, named cultivars and hybrids.
Tellima grandiflora - not much for flowers but foliage is attractive and
evergreen.
Saxifrage x urbium or London Pride - will make excellent low evergreen
rosettes and spread around.
Saxifraga  x primuloides as above but darker green and  more compact.
Phlox stolonifera - again needs moisture to get established but later will
take some drought. Many named cultivars available.
Campanula takesimana - can take over and become a pest in rich soil, but in
poor soil in dry shade is excellent.
Epimediums - many species and  named cultivars
Eva Gallagher, Deep River , Ontario, Zone 3 (Canadian) - but lots of snow cover
>At 12:53 AM 12/31/97 -0500, you wrote:

>>
>>Brunnera
>>Pulmonaria (subject to a bit of mildew when cool and dry)
>>Begonia grandis (who should pull through your winters)
>>Lamiastrum galeobdolon (very rampant)
>>Hedera helix (also pretty rampant, but the small and variegated leafed ones
>>are pretty nifty IMO)
>>Euphorbia: amygdaloides var. robbiae and purpureum (one of my favorites)
>>Dicentra cucullaria and spectabilis do surprisingly well in dry, rooty
>>conditions
>>Pachysandra terminalis (fairly rampant ground cover - evergreen)
>>Arisaema triphyllum
>>Phlox divaricata
>>Podophyllum peltatum
>>
>>I'm sure there are more, just can't bring them to the front of my
>>mind....anybody add to this list??
>>
>>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>
>Hi, Marge.  Very helpful info. on planting around trees.  To your list of
>plants I would add Solomon's Seal (Esp. the variegated type), Hosta
>undulata 'Erromena' (which is quite drought tolerant), Arisaema tripartita,
>some gingers (Asarum species).  People have told me dry shade is perfect
>for cyclamen, but I have never grown them.
>
>Sheila S.
>Zone 5/6
>
>
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