Re: [SG] Hydrangeas

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• To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
• Subject: Re: [SG] Hydrangeas
• From: J* &* P* A* <j*@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
• Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:51:40 -0500

Vicky: Hydrangeas should do OK at that location. Also consider summer sweet
(clethra), a July-August bloomer with a wonderful scent. It does well in
half-shade. ---John Adney, Marion, Iowa (zones 4-5)
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan & Vicky Cahanes <acahanes@FRONTIERNET.NET>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 3:30 PM
Subject: [SG] Hydrangeas


>Hi,
>
>I would like to know if it would be okay to plant Hydrangeas on the
>South side of my garage.   We live right in the middle of the woods so
>there are quite
>a few trees that still shade that side of the garage.  It doesn't even
>get 4 full
>hours of direct sun. I know Hydrangeas I have planted in other areas of
>the yard which gets way more shade do just fine.  I live in WI  zone
>4a.  I need 3 shrubs to plant on
>the south side of the garage and I just don't know what to put there
>that would do good
>with some direct sunlight some of the time and shaded the rest of the
>time. I have tryed shrubs that need full sun and they just don't grow
>good.  I don't know the name
>of the Hydrangeas I have all I know is they are not the Peegee
>Hydrangea.  These that I have bloom white and everyone around here grows
>them.  I know they grow
>pretty tall and it's like the branches grow straight up out of the
>ground.  In the
>winter you see all these branches standing up with the dead faded flower
>heads on the end of them.
>
>Thanks,
>Vicky Cahanes
>New Richmond,  WI
>zone 4a

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