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WANTED: Shade plants needed

18 years ago

I am searching for any shade loving planted. The ones I have my eye on are: coleus, astilbe, bleeding heart,

virginia bluebell, bergenia, hostas, lady's mantle,

lenton rose, lobelia, lily of the valley, epimedium, Jack in the pulpit, Solomon's seal,

lungwort, toad lily, turtlehead, cranesbill, Siberian bugloss or bugloss,

ligularia, wood poppies,

gray's sedge, woodland plox, tuberous begonias, Sweet william,

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ademink
18 years ago
Ben, where do you live?
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