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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Intro

Hi Lew,
    I cut most of your message to remark on the one section that caught my
eye most. You luck person you. Having a creek run through your property
with lots of shade trees. Should make for absolute heaven this summer. If I
had the property I would be purchasing plants and sowing seeds of all kinds
of Primula to plant along the moist places in drifts. Then for larger
plants to break up the drifts, Goats Beard, Bugbanes, Turtlehead. Lots of
moisture loving Iris and tall lilies.
    Good luck on creating the little bit of santuary from the world.
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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> My plans for this year are to put in some good shade-loving plants in the
> island in front of the house (a couple mature oaks and a couple mature
> pines plus a couple smaller trees -- trunk diameters ranging from 6 to 24
> inches) and do something in the woods behind the house.  I don't have a
> back yard to speak of -- I really just have a deck and then the woods
> (mature trees of all sorts).  There are three or four azaleas growing out
> there and some ferns, but the rest are trees, saplings, and general
> underbrush.  I hope to clear things out a bit, partly to create a better
> environment for the mature trees, and partly to make a bit of a
> shade-garden path down to the creek.
>
> This creek also forms a ravine along my driveway approx 30ft deep and in
> deep shade.  I'm hoping to clear it out a little bit and put in a nice
> deep-shade groundcover plus some specimin plants.  My total property size
> is about 0.6 acre, roughly half of which is woods.
>
> -- Lew Jansen
> Atlanta, GA
> Zone 7a/b (borderline)
>
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>  Lew Jansen
>  lewj@mindspring.com
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