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Your top 5 perennials for shade
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Posted by shadeeladee z5 KS (My Page) on Tue, May 13, 03 at 21:17
The subject line says it all...What are your five favorite perennials for shade?
Are they any you had no luck with whatsover and will never try again? |
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RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| I absolutely can't live without violets, geranium maculatum, hostas, bergenia cordifolia, polemonium caeruleum. I've given up on lupines - in the shade or the sun. ...For now anyway. |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Hostas, Primulas, Spiderwort, Monkshood, can't come up with a fifth. |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Hosta, pulminaria, ligularia, brunaria (like them aria's), asiatic lily. ;) I could go on and on,, but I'll limit it to five. ;) Diann
Iowa Z5 |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Lungworts, Columbines, Monkshoods, Cordalys and Hardy Begonias. Perhaps Campanulas and hardy Geraniums too, I havent tried them all yet. In general, I would love to see a wider choice of summer and fall blooming shade perrenials with REAL flowers on them. JTFR Im sick of Hostas. I have them, I use them but I most surely do not love them. Springcherry |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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Hosta,Astilbe,Meadow Sweet,Bloodroot,Merry Bells
Can't think of any I would never plant again. |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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- Heuchera
- Primula
- Bergenia
- Solomon's Seal
- Yellow Foxglove
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RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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1. Astilbe
2. Pulmonaria
3. Lobelia/Cardinal Flower
4. Cranesbill/Hardy Geranium
5. Columbines Hard to pick just 5 cause my shade garden is my favorite [right now] and I love the Heucheras/Coral Bells, Lily of the Valley, Eupatorium, Goatsbeard, violas, Johnny Jump Ups, Painted fern, Lamium, Bleeding hearts, Ajuga, and Hostas too!!!! Love them all! :-] |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| in no particular order: ferns
columbines
pulmonaria
hosta
myosotis |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Painted ferns, selaginella, lily of the valley, tiarella, astilbe...and hosta, I know that's 6 but hostas are in a class by themselves! |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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- Posted by jkom51 Z9 CA/Sunset 17 (My Page) on
Tue, May 20, 03 at 20:50
1) annual lobelia -- love that rich blue color!
2) callas -- white or colored, although the whites are bullies that try to take over all the beds
3) dwarf rhododendrons -- I have one that is fragrant, what a treat
4) abutilon pictum 'Thompsonii' -- I love abutilons, and this one is the prettiest, IMHO
5) clivia -- just planted two of them a month ago, one orange and the other red. Great foliage, too! |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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Hostas
Ferns
Epimediums
Heucheras
Brunneras |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Texas gold columbine, pigeonberry, salvia coccinea, salvia regla, Brazon penstemon |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Hostas,Epimediums,Ferns,Solomon's Seal,Columbines |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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Many of the plants mentioned above are favorites, but some of them are part shade plants for me. For SHADE my favorites are:
Brunnera
Omphalodes
Primulas
Painted Fern
Maidenhair Fern The most difficult shade perennials I have tried is blue Corydalis. Unless they come up with a more heat tolerant form, I will not try it again. Also difficult for me are Astilbes. They seem to need a little morning sun, constant moisture and high fertility without the use of commercial fertilizer. I killed several chlorotic looking plants with just a touch of fertilizer. I use blood meal now for nitrogen and organic fertilizers and they seem to be doing better, but time will tell. I have killed about 25 so far, but I like them so well I keep trying. I think I finally have the key to success. Though not a perennial, my favorite shade plants for huge bloom impact are Camellias and Rhododendrons. Camellias are the easiest. |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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| Liqularia, Heart Leaf Brunnera, lungwart, Goats Beard, Anemone, lenton rose are my favorites. |
RE: Your top 5 perennials for shade
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Strelitzia, Artabotrys, Mangifera, Eugenia and Tamarindus. I said that I would not try to grow Acer again until
a trip out of town to the northern part of Arizona when a few of the delicate lacy foliage hitched a ride home with me. LOL!
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