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Comments on shade perennials
Suja wrote: paghat wrote: One problem with adding the larger shrubs last is you'll disrupt or have to entirely remove the low-growing perennials after they've worked so hard to establish their root systems, & some of them will hate that & will take a long time to reestablish their own roots. I'm not as much a grass fan (though I do love lily turfs), which is why I suggested wintergreen & lingonberry for their continuing winter presence. I guess I wasn't clear. The shrubs will get planted with everything else. I'm still working on which ones those should be. Trying to put together a list of everything I really, really want had me going in circles, so I decided to make one list up, get done with it, and then make the other one up. Since I'll have more perennials than shrubs, I thought that should get done first. I will take a look at I.foetidissima and black mondo grass. I'm not a big Iris fan in general, but anything that provides year round interest would be a great addition. Suja IMO, the iris looks more like a grass than it does a lot of other irises. It is grown primarily for its valuable trait of being evergreen and readily adaptable to dry shade and the brightly colored and long lasting fruit - the flowers are quite insignifcant as irises go. I grow two different cultivars, too - the straight species and a variegated one, both produce bright, red orange, berry-like seeds. Mondo grass - regardless of color - is a great shade grass-looking plant. The black is just such a striking contrast against anything in the gold or chartreuse tones. Other than certain species of Carex, there are really no evergreen grasses for shade. Some really nice deciduous ones, though - Hakone grass, golden wood rush (Milium). Molinea. They'd add a lot of color during the growing season. pam |
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