Believe it or not, you can have flowers when gardening in wet, low-light conditions. In the summer of 2001, we bought an old one-room schoolhouse on neglected acres in the foothill of the Adirondacks. The property was a weedy tangle of buckthorns, swamp cedars, wild grapevines, and Virginia creeper. Waving his arm toward a dard a dark , gloomy jungle of nonflowering ditch lilies and moss that hugged the building, my husband, Jigs-architect of grand visions-dedclared that we should make this area our entryway. Except for moss and ferns, what could grow in such a forbidding place? As I explored the range of flowering possibilities, I learned that every damp-shade area is different, so strategies for developing them vary,as do the plants that will grow there. The perennials and annuals I rely on bring abundant flowers to our garden from spring through fall.
By Jo Ann Gardner
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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