Re: Any colorful shade plants that last all summer?
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Any colorful shade plants that last all summer?
- From: B* B*
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:02:43 -0400
Hello...
Bobbie here in Mass in zone 6
Blooming all summer at less than 2 ft?
Dicentra exemia, formosa(?) etc....
gray ferny foliage, with blooms from white to dark pink...
in compost they have been showing off, one year old plantings, at 18 inches
for 2 months already with more blossoms coming!
Other colorful things and textured plants are based on foliage...
feverfew....there is a gold foliage one that is better in some sun, but most
all I can get to bloom all season in moderate shade
will think of others, I am sure, when I sign off!
Bobbie
Bobbie Brooks, MA zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Diana Pederson <euphorbia@MICHCOM.NET>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 11:08 AM
Subject: [SG] Any colorful shade plants that last all summer?
>Hi:
>
>I am wondering what colorful shade plants you've found that bloom all
>summer long? I get so tired of having to plant annuals each year to be
>sure of having something in bloom in my shade garden. This garden
>consists of heucheras, astilbes, and hostas. The oriental lilies are
>being moved to the backyard this week because they are much too tall for
>the size of the shrubs behind them. I'm trying to scale down my garden
>plants a bit. I need a colorful plant that stands no more than about 2
>feet tall and blooms July-August. Any suggestions?
>--
>Diana Pederson, Ingham County, Michigan, Zone 5, United States
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