Re: [SG] Gooseneck Loosestrife

-Hi, all....Claire wrote:

>I grow l. clethroides and have little trouble with spreading out.  Here in
>cold country, planted in dry shade this plant with grow and flower where you
>may have no luck with other plants.  In general lysimachia is a native of
>moist sites so really dry soils can help.  It is a widening circle in my
>garden controlled with a few jabs of the trowel in summer.

I have had the same experience with growing this in my shade garden, and it
has been wonderful under the stairs leading up to the second story deck, an
area that gets very little sun and very little rain, as well.  These plants
are wonderful in this bed, set against a backdrop of a piece of driftwood
that is lodged under the stairs.....so pretty in the late season....I have
also put some of it in other places in the garden, and have found it easy
enough to pull up when I choose to.....
Now, maybe these are famous last words, but so far, so good....and for the
rest, I will never know, since I am moving this weekend, with a whole new
garden to set up.  I am thrilled that I will have both shade and sun in this
new garden, so have to start learning about the plants that will grow in the
sun.  I am very pleased, though, that there will be some nice sections of
shade, since I have really come to appreciate all the wonderful things that
grow in the shade, thanks in large part to the generous gardeners I have
"met" on this list and the Gardens lists.

Many thanks, and I am sure I will have many more questions once I start to
garden in my new home.

    Marilyn
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