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2 years ago I dug up a root of a beautiful blooming plant that my daughter has. She has it planted it partial sun. You know how it is when everyone calls a plant by a different name? That's how this has been. Today I saw it at a Farmers Market in Florence, SC, and it's Quince Cameo. When I looked it up it said to plant it in full sun. I have it planted in full shade. It's blooming and looks healthy. Go figure.

Hey, if it's blooming and looks healthy I would leave it alone. Why mess with a good thing!

patches

I know what you mean! If it says full sun I make sure it gets some shade at least in mid afternoon simply because in late spring and summer Tx sun is blistering, and I learned my lesson the first 2 years here! :rolleyes:

Sheri, I face North east and have planted everything you can imagine in the shade. They grow- just not as well as it would in the 'right' conditions. The only thing that doesn't seem to like the shade so far is my variegated dogwood. Gonna move that one in the spring.

Good luck and have fun 'experimenting'.

You know how it is when everyone calls a plant by a different name? That's how this has been.
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That's the problem with common names i'm afraid. If you can learn the botanical name of the plant and post it here, there can be no mistaking what plant you're talking about.

I know what you mean!... I do the same thing!
I have some perennials that need FULL SUN, but I have them in FULL Shade and they are growing wonderfully!

I do this a lot. Always push my luck to see where things will grow. Right now I have bleeding hearts in full sun, and peonies in my shade garden. I've also been brave enough to try just about anything under my walnut tree. More survives there than hostas!

I have a bunch of flowers in the north area.. totally full shade which is made further more by the huge oak tree in my yard I grow lily's purple cone, shasta daisies, carnations... they all bloom and look great.. look at my siggy button that is in my shade shade garden ya never know !!

Hello to everyone.

I just today pulled up a spent sunflower that had sprouted out of bird feed, and the sunflower was growing UNDER my apple tree, right beside my acanthus. It had two heads on it about saucer sized. Maybe call it a 'shadeflower' instead? I also have a Carolina jessamine growing in a shady spot, which gets light during the day but no direct sunlight at all, regardless of time of day or year. I want to cover an ugly but necessary fence and thought well, I would just try planting it there to see what it would do. It is growing and vining well and I am well pleased. Four O'clocks in dense shade, underneath elephant ears also. Glad I am not the only one whose plants do alright other than where the lable says.

Welcome honestead!! it may take a little longer to bloom but they do?..