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Dry Shade What to plant in that shady spot that you can’t seem to get enough water to? These dry shade plants. Anyway if you did water it heavily the slugs would march in in force.
In late summer intense true blue blossoms of Hardy Plumbago are a butterfly favorite and blossoming often continues into fall even while the foliage is turning mahogany red. What a visual treat for us humans! Mature height of 8 inches makes it useful for either an accent plant or as colorful ground cover. Sun without reflected heat to shade.
Plant Select® 2003 Our grower introduced these to the trade and the Plant Select organization recognized their vigor and beauty. Mounded foliage up to 1’ wide is a medium green with creamy variegation and the cerise-red flower spikes rise to 1’ total height. Not only will the butterflies and hummingbirds visit but you may cut these for addition to bouquets! Sun without reflected heat to shade.
Plant Select 2001! We continue to be amazed by this columbine with its showy golden flowers in June. Easy to grow and does best in part shade. Repeat blooms if dead-headed. Keep on the dry side.
Plant Select ‘01! More compact than Denver Gold with petals and spurs of incredibly rich, shiny violet-blue which contrast wonderfully against the white interior petals. Easy to grow, does best in part shade.
New! This is a very handsome geranium with dark reddish-plum finely dissected leaves with blue lilac like flowers from June to August! A wonderful color and textural contrast for the sunny perennial garden or partial shade garden.
Ugh slugs! The bane of shade gardeners. Don’t create damp slug havens by overwatering well mulched beds. Salt shaken on a slug is only a temporary irritation to them but a long term detriment to your soil and plants. Metaldehyde based baits are not suited to use around pets and desirable wildlife—don’t let them eat it. “Natural” baits can kill but are they too much work to keep tending traps? Are you doing everything right but an uneducable neighbor isn’t, so the pests slither in every night? Try a line of pure uncoated copper tape that they must cross to enter your garden (or planter!). It must stay unburied to be effective by giving them a little natural electrical zap! If only we could get the Robins to eat at night!
Plant Select® is a cooperative research program of the Denver Botanical Garden, the horticulture industry and Colorado State University. The goal is to evaluate and introduce plants that are suited to the Rocky Mountain West. They are found either in the wild or in regional experimental stations like at Cheyenne. We value this research and are proud to offer Plant Select.
Rain Gauge Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
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Hardy Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)
Denver Gold Columbine ( Aquilegia chrsantha ‘Denver Gold’)
Remembrance Columbine (Aquilegia ‘Swan Violet and White’) 
Dark Reiter (Geranium pratense) 
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.
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