Re: [SG] Favorite Shade Ground covers
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Favorite Shade Ground covers
- From: M* T* <m*@CLARK.NET>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 03:59:32 -0500
No kidding? Mine don't do that, but I generally give it a haircut around
July just to clean up tatty leaves, get rid of old flower stems and keep it
where I want it. Springs right back with new foliage in my garden.
It is always neat to find out what plants do in other places, I think;
interesting part to me is that you aren't all that far away from me....must
be that extra bit of heat and humidity.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Bill Shear <BILLS@HSC.EDU>
> Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 8:04 AM
>
> >And what about Symphytum grandiflorum? A neat carpeting plant for shade
or
> >part sun, prefers decent soil, but will grow in less than perfection.
> >Tolerates dry shade; fairly long flowering season, with repeat bloom if
you
> >give it a haircut.
>
> This one gets heavily fungus-spotted by early summer here in central
Virginia.
>
> Bill Shear
> Department of Biology
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> (804)223-6172
> FAX (804)223-6374
> email<bills@hsc.edu>
