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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Catalog suggestion & Question

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>Another plant I am tempted by is Clethera Hummingbird (shrub actually). Has
>anyone grown this?  The description says only 1-2' tall which would be ideal
>for a border I want to make to separate my backyard (10'x10') from my
>neighbor's.****Diana, I haven't grown Hummingbird, but I have grown
Clethra....very nice....blooms in late July/early August. Some fragrance but
not a fragrance like trumpet lilies or roses. Mine is about 3 or 4 years old
and is about 3 feet tall. This is supposedly a plant of wet places, but mine
seems perfectly happy in the garden in about 1/3 of a day of sunshine.

Clyde, from what I've noticed about Fallopia in the nursery, I wouldn't
plant it unless I had oodles of room that I wanted to fill. It is VERY
vigorous!!!! It is certainly a beautiful plant, but I wouldn't put it in on
my city lot. The Juncus varieties are usually partially submerged, and I
believe they are fairly strong spreaders. Some things that might give you
entirely different leaf shapes than your hosta are: baptisia (mine grows in
full shade...doesn't flower much, but the leaves are great), tricyrtis (much
more beautiful than their common name of toad-lily...they look like
miniature orchids), ferns (I especially like Japanese painted fern
....Athyrium goeringianum), Aconitum, a grass that is golden for the shade
(Hakonechloa macra aurea) which grows like a wave of gold in one direction,
the variegated Solomon's Seal, Lobelia cardinalis. If you're looking for an
iris/rush look, why not grow an upright Siberian ....you probably won't get
any bloom from it, but it would give that look. Jean Bawden-Madison, Wi
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