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Re: [SG] dry shade

At 11:35 AM 6/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Unsurpassed for dry shade is Asarum canadense, Canadian ginger. The other
>gingers prefer a sunnier situation and spread very slowly in shade so
>unless you are a zillionaire I don't recommend them.

EVEN THOUGH IT SPREADS MORE SLOWLY, ASARUM EUROPAEUM, WHICH HAS SMALLER,
SHINY LEAVES, IS EXCELLENT.
>
>Re epimediums, there are several especially vigorous yellow forms. The red
>is very vigorous also.
>
>A number of ferns don't seem to mind dry shade, e.g. Christmas fern. Sweet
>woodruff would do OK also. Wild geranium ... jacob's ladder ... lamiums
>especially galeobdolon (yellow archangel) ... lysimachias of all kinds
>from moneywort to gooseneck loosestrife will perform in deep shade.

I AGREE THAT GERANIUM MACULATUM, aka WILD GERANIUM, and POLEMONIUM REPTANS,
aka JACOB'S LADDER, ARE WONDERFUL WOODLAND/SHADE PLANTS.

WATCH OUT FOR THE LAMIASTRUM GALEOBDOLON (spelling?), aka YELLOW ARCHANGEL
- IT IS VERY, VERY VIGOROUS AND INVASIVE, SO YOU MUST HAVE A LARGE SPACE. I
STARTED IT FOR EROSION CONTROL AND IT IS TAKING OVER MY WORLD.

THE LYSIMACHIAS CAN ALSO BE INVASIVE. NEVERTHELESS, I HAVE LYSIMACHIA
CLETHROIDES, aka GOOSENECK LOOSESTRIFE, WHICH HAS PANICLES OF WHITE FLOWERS
IN SUMMER, AND I LIKE ITS APPEARANCE WELL ENOUGHT THAT I WILL PUT UP WITH
ITS INVASIVE NATURE.

SOME OF MY OTHER FAVORITES ARE:
        POLYGONATUM CANICULATUM/BIFLORUM, aka SOLOMON'S SEAL - IT ARCHES
BEAUTIFULLY OVER OTHER PLANTS
        SMILACENA RACEMOSA, aka FALSE SOLOMON'S SEAL
        STYLOPHORUM DIPHYLLUM, aka CELANDINE POPPY - YELLOW FLOWERS,            INTERESTING
FOLIAGE - WILL REBLOOM IF CUT BACK AFTER THE FIRST              FLUSH OF FLOWERING
        STARRY CAMPION (I CANNOT REMEMBER BOTANICAL), WHICH HAS WHORLS OF FOUR
LEAVES AND WHITE FLOWERS THAT FLOAT - IT CAN BE DIFFICULT TO            TRANSPLANT
DUE TO ITS TAP ROOT, AND IT SPREADS SLOWLY, BUT IT              LOOKS GREAT
        HEPATICA ACUTILOBA, LIVERWORT, FORMS CLUMPS AND DOES NOT SPREAD                 RAPIDLY,
BUT IF YOU HAVE DRY SHADE WITH SANDY LOAM, IT IS A              SUPER PLANT

GOOD LUCK



>> At 11:04 AM -0400 6/3/98, Bordo Adrienne wrote:
>> >I'm in zone 4 and am looking for ideas for plants for dry shade.
>
>
Carolyn Quinnell Bryson, Indianapolis, Zone 5
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