Shade Gardening: Unusual woodland plants, 1 by katie59

katie59 wrote:
Look at that. Someday I'll see that. :-) I got a couple of the P. quadrifolia this year. It already has a bud. Much more rewarding. I did get the P. polyphylla to replace the one I lost last winter.

I also splurged on a very cool cypripedium with fanlike leaves - C. formosa - though I haven't been able to find it online. It looks pretty cool.

Rick was so patient with us - we kept picking up plants to buy and half the time he'd tell us that we couldn't have those because they were his seed stock. :-) I guess he lost a lot of stuff this last winter (we had an early hard frost). He said that he's sold mst of his Daphne already.

When I was there many of them were in bloom and it smelled pretty darned good He's built lots of raised beds to maximize the heat and drainage for his alpines.