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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] New Member Bio

In a message dated 98-01-15 13:18:51 EST, you write:

<< My current question for the group is, does anyone know anything about
 growing fuchsias in my zone? (I'm talking about standards, not hanging
 baskets). Before we moved here we knew and grew fuchsias in the Bay Area,
 where they thrived, and I miss them. Wayne Winterrowd can grow them in
 Vermont, but I'm in the Lower Midwest. I think they would winter over in
 our basement; my main concern is whether they could survive our hot, muggy
 summers. Any advice? >>

Bobbi,

Perhaps no advice but a word about the Winterrowd garden in Vermont.  This is
the subject of several books and many magazine articles and is about 45
minutes from my house.

I have been there several times (open the last day of each month, write for
tickets which are free) (AIDS donation politely asked for)

Eck and Winterrowd are super-gardeners and everything they touch thrives.
But........the fuchsia and Powis Castle and laurus nobilis and lots of other
touchy plants in the pictures live in a winter house attached to their house.
There is also a neat storage house for some of these plants which causes them
to go dormant and stay that way enabling Eck and Winterrowd to fill their
gardens with surprises.

These two build a house over their English boxwood in winter and have a great
gunnera growing in some other sort of contraption that keeps it alive.  They
have a patch of meconopsis in their woods.  They have hosta all over the place
and the woodlands adjoining the the formal part of their gardens are full of
wonderful plants all the visitors are on their knees trying to identify.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
Zone 4 -  (same as the Winterrowd-Eck garden)
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