Re: Understory Plantings and Pink Potentilla

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• Subject: Re: Understory Plantings and Pink Potentilla
• From: R* S* <r*@CIRCLE.NET>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:35:33 +0000
• References: <Pine.3.89.9707180801.A14471-0100000@equinox.shaysnet.com>

Denise Leonard wrote:
> 
> Thanks Marge for all your suggestions.  I was wondering if the Ilex opaca
> is the same as winterberry?  That certainly would be a nice possibility.
> I was thinking of the clethra; I think I want something a little taller
> than the Itea (I do have one of those and I really like it).  I do have a
> Hydrangea quercifolia which is growing in a different spot and is covered
> with blooms this year.  The area in question is subjected to the winter
> winds so that whatever I put there has to tolerate the dry shade as well
> as the winter winds.  Is there a common name for Mahonia?  I will look
> that up in Dirr (book is home-I am at work).
> 
> On a slighly different note-has anyone grown the new pink potentilla.
> Anyone know how hardy it is and what its growing characteristics are.  I
> have a white, a pale yellow and a yellow one.  Wayside carries the pink
> one.  I saw one in England several years ago and would like to get one.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Denise Leonard
> Tanstaafl Farm
> Greenfield, MA
> dal@shaysnet.com

Ilex Opaca is a evergreen, Ilex verticilatta or winter berry is
deciduious. A common name for Mahonia is oregon grape.
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