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  • From: "bbmackey" <bbmackey@prodigy.net>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] shady rock outcropping
  • Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 18:07:23 -0400

Sounds like you might like to add larger foliage or flower spikes but with a
delicate woodland look, to get more impact from 20 feet away. How about
Adenophora lilifolia (Ladybells) with 18-inch spikes of lavender-blue
flowers. This grows in a lot of shade. Also, maybe some large-leaved
heucheras such as 'The Bride' for both foliage and flowers. Tiarella
cordifolia and hardy ginger, too. Placement would be tricky because you
wouldn't want to cover the rock too much. Solomon's Seal, dark green or
green and white variegated, could be effective, too, with the tall, arching
form.

-- Betty Mackey


> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to plant in a shady rock
> outcropping? I've been pulling ivy off this outcropping and have
discovered
> several small ledges that seem to cry out for small plants. There are
> limitations: the area is really dark, except in the winter and early
> spring; it is difficult (though not impossible) to water, and it is about
> 20 feet from the sidewalk, which means that the plants have to "read" from
> a distance. I have already planted some creeping campanula, some white
> corydalis and a hellebore, and was thinking of putting in some variegated
> miniature hostas. Any other ideas? Are there epimediums that need fast
> drainage (now that, for the first time, I actually have it)? Hepaticas
that
> don't cost $65 a plant? Something so sweet that, as Dan Hinkley once
wrote,
> you want to slap it?
> Thanks,
> Nancy Stedman, NYC
>





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