Re: [SHADEGARDENS] to rake or not to rake?

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• Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] to rake or not to rake?
• From: C* <C*@AOL.COM>
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:22:35 EST

In a message dated 98-03-24 09:43:31 EST, Cindy writes in respect of ground
covers that might retard growth of interplantings:

<< I'd like to expand the scope of this
 discussion to include even more ground covers, like Pachysandra terminalis
and
 procumbens (Japanese and Allegheny spurges), Lamium maculatum (spotted dead
 nettle), Tiarella cordifolia (foam flower), Phlox divaricata (woodland
phlox),
 Mitchella repens (partridge berry), Myosotis sylvatica (forget-me-nots, the
 perennial one?), Paxistima canbyi, Iris cristata (crested iris), and any
 Lysimachias (moneyworts) or the short Thymes...
 I know there are many more I haven't mentioned, or even heard of....
  >>
I can only speak to growing hostas with these ground covers. Lysimachia
nummularia is ok.L. clethroides will take over everything. OK are the
tiarellas and thymes and lamiums.  But not Pachysandra terminalis. This has
been my experience. It is a good topic, I think, and I'd like to hear others'
views.

Clyde Crockett z5 ccredux@aol.com Indy IN

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