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Old 23-07-2008, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by foxglove77 View Post
Now the foxgloves have stopped flowering what plant would be a good replacement in a shadey boarder, that will offer height and colour? My boarder is looking so bare now.
Depends a bit on how shady the border is.

Martagon lilies will do very well in light shade, and will naturalize; Japanese anenomes the same - though try to keep to the white forms which are less rampant. Both flower after foxgloves. The native wood gentian is well worth considering.