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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Buddleia: Reply

Hi Clare,
     I have tried the Paris japonica a few times here. I had quite a
collection of dwarfs then we got hit by a -20 temps while they were still
young. End of story. Have not tried since, but think I was not holding my
mouth right when I planted them. These shrubs can be seen in the middle of
a concrete island at McDonalds occasionally around here..
I think the new growth and blooms are equally beautiful and will one day
try them again. Also intend to try the Enkianthus. Subtle, but oh so lovely
as small trees. Tried two, and lost them some years ago.
Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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>
> On a zone 4 mountainside I can grow one daphne, no heaths, all kalmia or
> mountain laurels, native azaleas, a select group of rhodies beginning
with the
> PJMs and checking their ratings, no gingers except the native woodland
plant
> and all dogwoods.  Clyde, you must try harder.  What I would really love
to
> grow, Clyde and Bobbi, is a pieris of the sort that grow around London.
I
> think it is a japonica, I can't look it up just now.  The shrub gets as
tall
> as a lilac and has flaming red new growth. Can you grow the best pieris
in
> Central Indiana?  Pieris is the one shrub totally immune from deer and
does
> not want to grow on mountains.
>
>
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, NY
> zone 4
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