Well, it's that time again.  This year, our B-I-G yard is finally taking 
shape.  The most success we have had with shady areas are (1) Periwinkle,
great stuff.  Fills in to a green lush carpet in about 3 years, has pretty 
blue flowers, and is EVERGREEN.  (2) Various hostas - fabulous shade plants,
and (3) various ferns - even though they are delicate, they grow and grow, 
filling in all sorts of places where nothing else will grow (even under the 
deck stairway and landing!

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one of the things that was on sale at franks a couple of weeks ago (and if they
work, will be wonderful!!!) are bags of sedd/mulch, like the bags they have
of grass seeds, except these have allysum, daisy, or zinnia seeds in them.
there are also bags of wildflowers.  we put down a bag of the allysuim
two days ago, and will be soon putting down the bag of daisies.  if you want
large spaces covered, i'd heartiely reccomend...:)

as for the B-I-G yard...lucky!!!!!! :)

also good for shade are impatiens and begonial, but i like hostas better
because they are perennials.  
Guess what?  I work at a nursery and greenhouse this summer!!
<and i get a discount yippee!>

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I work ar Clyde Smith and Sons in Westland.  Sure you can ask me anything you 
want but i may have to point you in the direction of someone who
knows the answer  :)

OK, it's not landscaping, but I am trying to grow Morning Glories on my
little apartment deck.  So far they are about 2" tall, which is not bad
for something that was a seed 6 days ago.  How closely can you cram them
into pots?
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Val, I practically live at Clyde Smith.  I will have to look you up!
I may have my second Grexer sighting this month!!!  

Arrgh, Its too late suzi.  I quit, and now I'm up in Northern
Michigan studying invertabrates and stuff.  But when I'm in town, I
spend alot of timein there.

After a slow start, my morning glories have been flowering for 3 or 4 weeks
now, and in the last couple of days they have gone nuts - about a dozen
flowers a day, which is pretty good considering there are only 8 plants, all
living in pots.  And direct sun only in the late afternoon.

I planted a trumpet vine to hide a service pole.  It also had a very slow
start, but now it is taking off like mad.  No flowers, yet, but hopefully it
will make lots of hummingbirds very happy, probably next year.  Also, I rooted
a few slips - looks like it's easy to establish new plants from cuttings.

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