Re: [SG] Low Maintenance Gardening

Nancy, I bought ONE C. ramosa about 5 years ago and it lingered for 3
years before finally giving up altogether. Fortunately, I have forgotten
how much I spent for it but it was expensive--and painful watching its
decline. I will never get another. A gardening friend grows the plain
Cimicifuga racemosa (?) and she has a bunch of it--no fuss, no muss,
attractive, not temperamental or difficult.  Doesn't smell as good, true,
but MUCH cheaper! It's a native, as opposed to ramosa, which comes from
Tibet or somewhere. As soon as I get around to it, I'm going to get some
C. racemosa. I am getting more and more into native plants. They seem to
LIKE my dreadful Lower Midwest growing conditions.

We put in mulch everywhere this spring--except in my hosta garden, where I
am convinced that mulch near hostas exacerbates the Southern Blight
problem.

Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
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