Re: Understory "groundcover"
- Subject: Re: [SG] Understory "groundcover"
- From: M* T*
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:45:08 -0400
I second this...I cannot grow this plant at all. Have murdered
several trying. It loathes and despises our hot, humid summers.
Lovely, lovely thing, if you have the exacting conditions it wants.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Claire Peplowski <ECPep@AOL.COM>
>
> I would not plan on Cornus candensis for a ground cover unless you
have a
> fairy godmother in the garden.
>
> This is a very difficult plant to site and grow. It is native in
my part of
> the country and sometimes I think it does not like us.
>
> Surely try two or three and check the culture carefully before you
invest in
> C. canadensis. It grows in acid soils and seems healthier the
farther north
> you go.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
