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Question about sun for lilies of the valley
I have lots of LotV which I intend to consolidate and let spread. I
also have a rectangle about 3 feet wide and ten feet long between my boxwood and a stone sidewalk, facing the morning sun (straight east, in fact). I know LotV likes some shade; is this rectangle a bad place to put them? There are tall evergreens across the street from it, about 80 feet away, but between, say, 9 a.m. & noon, the rectangle gets full sun. Advice? If not my LotV, what then? I'd like something that'll look nice all year, so will go w/a ground cover and spring bulbs if that's the right answer. Also, has anyone tried planta genesta in zone 6b? I'm in Maryland, between Baltimore & Washington. |
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Question about sun for lilies of the valley
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0500, spampot wrote:
I have lots of LotV which I intend to consolidate and let spread. I also have a rectangle about 3 feet wide and ten feet long between my boxwood and a stone sidewalk, facing the morning sun (straight east, in fact). I know LotV likes some shade; is this rectangle a bad place to put them? There are tall evergreens across the street from it, about 80 feet away, but between, say, 9 a.m. & noon, the rectangle gets full sun. Advice? If not my LotV, what then? I'd like something that'll look nice all year, so will go w/a ground cover and spring bulbs if that's the right answer. Also, has anyone tried planta genesta in zone 6b? I'm in Maryland, between Baltimore & Washington. They should grow well. Morning sun is good. Our LOV have been spreading like crazy, mostly in full to part-shade. They are emerging this week in zone 7. The smell is wonderful when they bloom, but in late summer they look like crap. |
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Question about sun for lilies of the valley
Phisherman wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0500, spampot wrote: I have lots of LotV which I intend to consolidate and let spread. I also have a rectangle about 3 feet wide and ten feet long between my boxwood and a stone sidewalk, facing the morning sun (straight east, in fact). I know LotV likes some shade; is this rectangle a bad place to put them? There are tall evergreens across the street from it, about 80 feet away, but between, say, 9 a.m. & noon, the rectangle gets full sun. Advice? If not my LotV, what then? I'd like something that'll look nice all year, so will go w/a ground cover and spring bulbs if that's the right answer. Also, has anyone tried planta genesta in zone 6b? I'm in Maryland, between Baltimore & Washington. They should grow well. Morning sun is good. Our LOV have been spreading like crazy, mostly in full to part-shade. They are emerging this week in zone 7. The smell is wonderful when they bloom, but in late summer they look like crap. Thanks very much for the quick response. Do you mean they go brown in late summer, or just get ragged-looking? My idea is to have a solid mass of some kind of green, and ragged is OK up to a point. |
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Question about sun for lilies of the valley
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:53:45 -0500, spampot wrote:
Phisherman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0500, spampot wrote: I have lots of LotV which I intend to consolidate and let spread. I also have a rectangle about 3 feet wide and ten feet long between my boxwood and a stone sidewalk, facing the morning sun (straight east, in fact). I know LotV likes some shade; is this rectangle a bad place to put them? There are tall evergreens across the street from it, about 80 feet away, but between, say, 9 a.m. & noon, the rectangle gets full sun. Advice? If not my LotV, what then? I'd like something that'll look nice all year, so will go w/a ground cover and spring bulbs if that's the right answer. Also, has anyone tried planta genesta in zone 6b? I'm in Maryland, between Baltimore & Washington. They should grow well. Morning sun is good. Our LOV have been spreading like crazy, mostly in full to part-shade. They are emerging this week in zone 7. The smell is wonderful when they bloom, but in late summer they look like crap. Thanks very much for the quick response. Do you mean they go brown in late summer, or just get ragged-looking? My idea is to have a solid mass of some kind of green, and ragged is OK up to a point. Mine looked a bit ragged. But that's to be expected after the bloom. The area goes completely bare in the winter. I keep the LOV bed mulched with compost. It seems to grow well with very little maintenance. My mother had them growing as a ground cover under a stand of birch trees. Do pick some flowers for the dinner table. |
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Question about sun for lilies of the valley
Phisherman wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:53:45 -0500, spampot wrote: Phisherman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0500, spampot wrote: I have lots of LotV which I intend to consolidate and let spread. I also have a rectangle about 3 feet wide and ten feet long between my boxwood and a stone sidewalk, facing the morning sun (straight east, in fact). I know LotV likes some shade; is this rectangle a bad place to put them? There are tall evergreens across the street from it, about 80 feet away, but between, say, 9 a.m. & noon, the rectangle gets full sun. Advice? If not my LotV, what then? I'd like something that'll look nice all year, so will go w/a ground cover and spring bulbs if that's the right answer. Also, has anyone tried planta genesta in zone 6b? I'm in Maryland, between Baltimore & Washington. They should grow well. Morning sun is good. Our LOV have been spreading like crazy, mostly in full to part-shade. They are emerging this week in zone 7. The smell is wonderful when they bloom, but in late summer they look like crap. Thanks very much for the quick response. Do you mean they go brown in late summer, or just get ragged-looking? My idea is to have a solid mass of some kind of green, and ragged is OK up to a point. Mine looked a bit ragged. But that's to be expected after the bloom. The area goes completely bare in the winter. I keep the LOV bed mulched with compost. It seems to grow well with very little maintenance. My mother had them growing as a ground cover under a stand of birch trees. Do pick some flowers for the dinner table. Ah, more excellent advice! Thank you. I've become a rabid composter after success the past two years. My ready-to-use pile was just used completely up by our "lawn boy," who moved a rhododendron for us and praised its quality (the compost, not the rhodo). But I have plenty in progress. And I'll certainly pick bouquets; LotV is my birth-month flower. |
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