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[SG] astilboides? etc.

Has anybody grown astilboides?  This plant is *not* an astilbe, but a 3' x
4' perennial with vast round flat leaves.  Some of the leaves can be 2'
across.  Insignificant flowers.  Native of China, has been misclassified as
rodgersia.  I had a slip of it last year, but after a very rainy July it
died.

And on the subject of misclassification, the more closely I read the text
in Ken Druse's _The_Natural_Shade_Garden_ the more I find to question and
argue with.  It's a pretty book, but I'm not always sure his info is good.

My wilting Ligularia "The Rocket" problem has been solved by chatting with
Lesa von M-S.  She suggested that some sun must be hitting it, and sure
enough: a bit if morning sun slants in under the trees and lands squarely
on that plant.  I'll move it when the ground dries out a bit.

We had quite a storm on Saturday night.  Trees are down everywhere, many
folks are still without power.  Luckily for us, we didn't lose power or
phone, and all our trees stayed in place.  We went out in the height of the
storm to move  downed brances out of the road and clear the storm drains
that were stopped up.  Our clean-up consisted of disposing of 2 dead crows
that were killed in the storm and raking the yard.  We also took a lot of
branches out of various trees and cut down a small tree too near the house,
figuring that the city has massive piles of branches to hall away, and a
few more won't hurt.

Karen. [no water in the basement, even!  Hooray!]
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Zone 5a
Minneapolis
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