Re: Ground Cover for shade? AJUGA
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Ground Cover for shade? AJUGA
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 01:19:59 -0500
Cindy, I think it is the lack of chlorophyll that makes 'Silver
Beauty' so reluctant where its cousins are so exuberant. Often plants
with extremely white variegated leaves are less robust. 'Silver
Beauty' is really nice, but you have to watch its neighbors or it
will get easily overwhelmed.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
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> From: Cindy Johnson <Cidjohnson@AOL.COM>
> Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:01 AM
>
> That's been my experience too. I have 3 kinds, all growing in a
rather dry
> area under a crab apple tree: Bronze Beauty (green with bronze
tones and
> going gang busters), Burgundy Glow (green, pink, and white and very
slowly
> increasing), and Silver Beauty (green and white and standing
still). Because
> Bronze Beauty is mostly green and the other 2 are not, I figured
that the
> lack of chlorophyll makes the colorful ones weaker. Or, it could
be
> something totally unrelated! :o)
>
> Cindy Johnson
> White Bear Lake, MN
> zone 4a
