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Shade Gardening: woodland plants, 4 by Weerobin

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Weerobin wrote:
Started raining here in the middle of the afternoon, which shut down my gardening chores.
So I figured I'd use the time to post some pictures of some of my woodland plants.
The first 3 are from today.
#1 is Paris polyphylla.
#2 is Arisaema ringens. This plant is about 4 yrs old.
#3 is Myosotis palustris Unforgettable.
#4 is from last weekend, Calanthe discolor. It is supposedly marginally hardy here,
but sailed through last winter without a blink. Has increased nicely in size over 4-5 yrs.
#5 is a cute dwarf polygonatum with bright pink flowers, no taller than 5 inches.
Forms a short fine-textured groundcover in shade. Mine's only a couple years old,
so I'm not sure how effective it will turn out as groundcover, but so far I really like it.