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

Eva,

More great plants for the dry shade list!  I'd totally forgotten Epimediums
and they do tolerate dry, rooty spots well.   Wish I could get London Pride
to like my garden...think it doesn't like the hot, humid summer nights
around here :-(

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: eva gallagher <galla@INTRANET.CA>
> To: PRIMROSES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PRIMROSES] Planting under trees   was: New Member Bio
> Date: Friday, January 02, 1998 10:08 PM
>
> 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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