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About me: Northeastern native woodland plants are my hobby. My home garden of these plants has been decimated by deer and other creatures. I have decided to enjoy watching the wild-life outside my window and have moved my plants to a garden open to the public in the center of a small town nearby where many people can enjoy them. My plants, now live in a bed about 20' by 100' and are shaded by two large pines, five female persimmons and a tulip tree. The rest of the gardens of this historical home contain herbs, perennials, old time roses etc. as might have been grown by a family between 1765 and 1850, though the seductions of newer plants sometimes destroys our good intentions.

My zone is: z6 CT
GardenWeb Member: 2003-11-02
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Commented: Tallest ferns for zone 6? Royal fern will grow to 6 feet or more if in sun and planted in a wet ditch. Interupted fern will grow in sun or shade to 3 to 4 feet depending on moisture. Cinnamon fern likes shade and good moisture...
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Commented: Does anyone besides me like pokeberry? Poke weed likes disturbed ground. Its spring sprouts are edible while young and less than 12 inches high but larger ones become poisenous. If you like to line dry your laundry, don't when the berries ...
in New England Gardening  
Commented: New Historical Iris Thread (1635) posted by Gnomlet on 1/27/05 INKcognito. The Dutch iris have bulbs I think, while our gift "blue flags" (supposedly going back to imports in 1635) have rhyzomes. Never having seen the "blue flag 1635" and susp...
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