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[SHADEGARDENS] Biography

I live and garden in Westfield, Indiana.  This is in USDA zone 5; our
minimum winter temperatures vary from 0F/-17C to -20F/-28C from year to
year.  Our summer maximum temperatures range from the low 90s F (about 33C)
to about 100F (38C).  Annual precipitation is about 39 inches (about 100
cm), spread almost evenly throughout the year.

I grow and hybridize Hemerocallis (daylilies) and also grow some bulbs,
both tender and hardy.  I belong to the American Hemerocallis Society and
the International Bulb Society (IBS).  Tender bulbs are grown in pots,
wintering in a small home greenhouse.

We do not have very much shade here, but we grow a few hostas.  More to the
point, we are starting to grow many spring-flowering bulbs, some of which
are being planted under deciduous trees like Sugar Maple, Red Oak,
Hackberry, and Mulberry.  I am trying to start Cyclamen coum from seed, and
hope to start a large number of Cyclamen hederifolium from seed next year,
to go at the edges of our bit of woods.

I am also interested  in design of databases for recording information
about plants, whether in garden, nursery, or greenhouse.  I have been
organizing and assembling databases on Hemerocallis hybrids, and would like
to develop a general horticulturally useful system for all the types of
growing I do.

Jim Shields



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Jim Shields     jshields@indy.net               Shields Gardens, Ltd.
P.O. Box 92                                     http://a1.com/daylily/
Westfield, IN 46074  USA           http://garden.dmans.com/amaryllids/
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