Shade Gardening: Your woodland shade favorites, 1 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
Cindy, I'd hate to show all the failed attempts at growing enkianthus.
All I can tell you with confidence is they need sharp drainage.
And they can't stand our full summer sun. Mine are fairly shaded.
I have 3 that are doing well now; I'd be embarassed to say how many I've killed.
This is one of the other ones which is doing OK, a cultivar called Kisoji no haru.
It's supposed to be dark red, but to my eye, it's just slightly redder than the species.
Oh, well...

The two I'm really trying to get established are enkianthus perulatus (petite plant w/ pure white flowers) and enkianthus cernuus rubens w/ deep pure red flowers. I have one of each which are still 'alive' after 4-5 years, but that's about all I can say for them. Maybe one of these days they'll decide to start growing. I see no sign of it yet...