dry shade
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: dry shade
- From: C* P*
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:06:35 EDT
In a message dated 10/7/00 8:23:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eoneill@IBM.NET
writes:
<< Would you like to elaborate a little? What other plants do you recommend
for dry shade? Epimedium, of course, but what others? Any ferns? >>
The Christmas fern is a dry shade denizen. Also Helleborus foetidus.
Several campanulas, punctata is one. These are three that will not just hold
on but will grow well in dry shade. All of the Hosta undulata forms will do
very well in dry shade. Discussed often is archangel which will grow
anywhere and is the plant of desperation. Archangel is beautiful and
vigorous (Lamiastrum) and is best curbed by the lawn mower.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
