Beginner Gardening: Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum Virgatum), 0 by todd17jk

todd17jk wrote:
Here's a picture from this morning - as the sun moves south across the eastern sky, it peeks through between my house and the neighbors house for an hour or so. I'm guessing that's why the three astilbe plants, located where the two lythrums now sit, failed. In addition to pretty full afternoon sun, this area also gets lots of sun in the early to mid-morning. At least the one astilbe I kept gets shaded by the carnation bush along the side of the house.