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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>]

   A couple of months ago I provided a list of shade loving plants. 
Apparently some
of you must have missed it so here it is again:

Burnt Ridge Nursery offers this list of plants for shady conditions:
Aronia, Oregon Bay Laurel, Cascara, Currant, Red Osier Dogwood, Goumi, Hardy
Kiwi, Arctic Kiwi,, Oregon Grape, Salal, Sequoia, Spruce, Wintergreen. Red
Huckleberry, Evergreen Huckleberry, Bamboo, Beech, Cedar, Gooseberry, Red
Elderberry, Honeyberry, Magnolia Vine, Rhododendron, Salmonberry, Snowberry,
Thimbleberry, Bunchberry, Western Hemlock, Wild Blueberry, Bearberry (Uva
ursa).

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
www.bberryfarm.com
(218)568-8483 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]

I've been gardening almost all my life and still have trouble compiling much
of a list of what tolerates shade.  In our temperate north, it seems very
little really does well in very much shade.  In partial shade, I'll be 
trying:

ginseng
burdock, both edible Japanese gobo like carrots and wild burdock to make
burdock tea
"Ornablue" variety blueberry [or other blueberry varieties, I just happen to
have this]
Oregon grape root [medicinal plant friend recommended]
currants [don't have any, I'll have to buy/swap for some]
mulberry [one or two on a trial basis]

again, deep shade and not much of anything will grow.
Charlie Paradise, Massachusetts too many