Shade Gardening: Your Woodland Shade Favorites 3, 0 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
Just a note on the Baptisia. I treat mine horribly. It comes up reliably, and even sends a friend sometimes. Once it has bloomed and made its pods, it starts to get very bushy and wants to take over and steal the sunlight from my lilies. All in all, destroying the other blooming plants. The past 2 years I've been cutting it down once it wants to take over. Really cutting down and ignoring it, and it comes up again no matter what. Amsonia is more of a woody bush, and I try to cut that down also even with its sticky white sap. Not quite as pretty a Baptisia, but it has its benefits.