Re: campanulas for shade
Currently it is imported from Sweden, and around $15.00 for a container,
although it lasts quite awhile. It has been for sale in most of the better
garden supply stores in the Seattle area this year, and I sell it at my
nursery. I imagine it will become available form a domestic source soon as
it is just pelleted iron sulfate, or something like that, a natural element,
(Sorry, I may not be remembering the name correctly). Also the mail order
company Plants Alive sells their own proprietary version of it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@INTERPORT.NET>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] 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
> >>
> >
> >
>
