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Weerobin wrote:
Cindy, I also have a 1/2 shady area with blazing afternoon sun.
I planted fall-blooming salvias there which have done great. They're just blooming now.
I treat some of them as annuals (s. leucantha),
but they grow huge in a single season and bloom their hearts out.
Here's a pix of leucantha - it's hard to get the long blooming spike in focus.