In article , Trish K.
wrote:

Staghorn Sumac amazed me when I happened upon a large stand in the
wild. I petted the antlers and it made me feel like a child in a zoo.
I can't imagine how a single one would look in a formal garden.

TK

That sumac will adapt to anything, but probably best in dry sunny spots, &
the query was for something that preferred moist soil with shade part of
the year. There are so many super-duper trees that'd like moist soil &
partial shade it seems to me it'd be a waste of space to give it over to a
staghorn sumac, though I do like that tree too & put one out on the
roadside in a neglectable sun-garden with bush sage & hidcote lavender & a
butterfly bush & rock roses, where the sumac & all else are doing fine
with just an occasional squirt of water during the sunniest summer weeks.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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