Re: campanulas for shade

Pamela: Where do you get Sluggo? I think my slugs have actually become
immune to Deadline, and I would really prefer using something not so
dangerous anyway.
Nancy

>a quick note on a good slug bait. Sluggo is great, and it is a fertilizer
>element, and is even used in chicken food so it won't harm your soil or
>animals. I have chickens wandering all over my nursery and none have been
>damages. Alternately, my daughters dog got into some deadline and was in
>convulsions for an entire day, and luckily survived the incident. We have
>been using it all season with great results.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Alaina Sloo (Brava Services) <a-asloo@CORP.WEBTV.NET>
>To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 2:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [SG] campanulas for shade
>
>
>> I've been experimenting with campunula species a lot this year and I'm
>also
>> a great fan of campanula in the shade.
>>
>> I love the wacky C. takesima (Pamela's Dr Seuss plant) and it bloomed
>> beautifully in full shade. Then the slugs/snails found it and decimated it
>> within about 3 days (sigh. the price of gardening in northern california).
>I
>> haven't had a slug problem with any other campanula, but I'm not sure if
>the
>> plant is a gourmet slug treat or if I just planted it in a particularly
>> slug-friendly spot. The other plants in that spot are ferns and oxalis, so
>> anything probably looks good to a slug compared with them. ;-)
>>
>> I've also always had excellent luck with the groundcover C. poscharskyana
>> (sp?).
>>
>> With just a few hours of morning sun, I had really good luck this year
>with
>> C. persicifolia 'George Chiswell'. It's a lovely flower, with medium-size,
>> outward-facing cups that are white with a blue/purple rim. It's about
>12-18"
>> tall and very long-blooming.
>>
>> C. rotundifolia also bloomed like crazy with just dappled morning sun in
>my
>> garden.
>>
>> C. latiloba is the only one I had any trouble with in shade this year
>(slugs
>> aside). It's planted where it gets a few hours of dappled morning sun. It
>> looks healthy, but it didn't bloom. It arrived looking the same size and
>> from the same mail order nursery as 'George Chiswell' (I forget which one)
>> and I planted them about 6 feet apart, so I can only conjecture that it
>> wanted a little more sun than it got. If anybody has any advice with this
>> plant, I'd love to hear it. It seems like it will be a lovely campanula.
>>
>> Alaina Sloo
>> Northern California
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Claire Peplowski [E*@AOL.COM]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 6:23 PM
>> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>> Subject: [SG] campanulas for shade
>>
>>
>> Hello Shade Robins:
>>
>> Since this list is very quiet, I assume you are all in malaise from the
>hot
>> summer and the (east coast) rainy humid hot September.
>>
>> I am there too so have been making notes on next year's garden.  In a book
>> by
>> Robin Lane Fox there are good suggestions on using campanula in the shade.
>>
>> The first is c. alliariifola 'Ivory Bells'.  He says "everybody knows
>about
>> the hosta, but nobody bothers with this equally obliging Campanula.  This
>> plant "will grow almost anywhere, even in dry shade".
>>
>> Next is c. latiloba. That one seems hard to locate.  Also for dry shade
>and
>> under shrubs.  A variety called 'Percy Piper' is a deep blue violet.  This
>> is
>> described as robust.
>>
>> A third is c. burghaltii.
>>
>> Last is the c. punctata.  Punctata is one of those plants with a warning.
>I
>> have one in the shady edge of the rock garden in poor soil. It doesn't do
>> much running around.
>>
>> All of these plants seem to carry bell shaped pendant flowers and would
>> offer
>> something new to try in the shade.  Seed may be the way for American
>> gardeners to have these plants.  Arrowhead Alpines carries two of them for
>> spring shipment.
>>
>> Claire Peplowski
>> East Nassau, NY
>> z4
>>
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