I reckon the best way is just to visit local gardens - gives great
ideas and not just on what to plant. We've got a huge estate not
half a mile away with loads of examples. There's also a nursery on
site and the odd plant fair so just about everything you can buy
is suitable. Website it www.shrublandpark.co.uk and
www.shrublandparknurseries.co.uk I think.

Regards etc,
Richard Carter

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Richard Carter


"Goose" wrote in message
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You don't mention your zone. Around here (zone 8) some of the
ever-blooming performers for full sun include Gaura, rose
campion (aka
pink mullein), Penstemons, Campanulas, bush & spike salvias,
Russian sage,
hyssops, bush mallow, thornless sunroses, ornamental
strawberry,
potentillas.... most of which are also drought tolerant.
Wanting a bit
of moisture are long-blooming wood asters, hybrid geums,
globeflowers,
alpine poppies, chocolate cosmos, monkshoods, Chinese fringe
flower,
pulsitilla, prairie mallow, beebalms....

To get started, get a Sunset Guide to take with you to your
local
nurseries. At the nurseries you can see precisely what's
available, & the
Sunset Guide will give honest assessments so you'll know which
will do
well in conditions you can provide.

-paghat the ratgirl

hi!

the zone is 6a.

but i read somewhere in this newsgroup that eastern
massachusetts,
where i am, could be in zone 5 due to the recent harsh winter.

and what is a sunset guide? is there a website where i can view
it? or
could i get it from the nursery itself?

thanks for your suggestions.

-goosy