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Chris Evans's avatar

Great article (again). Interesting that you're defining deep shade here as those areas of your garden that receive two - three hours of direct sunlight each day. What about areas that are under a canopy, say of a mature apple tree that is pruned and allows maybe 60-75% light but not direct? i.e. the ground layer is continuously shaded but only lightly? I observe that this is a common context for forest gardens where canopy is managed for light but not removed entirely. So will the plants listed above be OK in these conditions, and/or is there a further list of those that will?

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Michael Lowe's avatar

As always Paul your extensive work on polycultures and regenerative landscaping has gone from strength to strength over the years and in particular in the last 4 years. I'm very glad I remained subscribed to your news letter as have always found it fascinating and very helpful. So much so that I decided it was high time I joined your substack.

On that note, bigging up aside, a critical comment about typos and errors in the above fantastic post about plants for deep shade. Just thought I'd let you know there's a mistake under the common blue violet paragraph - somehow during your editing you must have entered this sentence under common blue violet heading instead of under sweet woodruff. Can you spot the mistake? Just thought you might appreciate this being brought to your attention.

Other than that I've very quickly skim read it so, not sure if any other typos, wrongly inserted sentences or grammatical errors, but I'm sure now that I've spotted that, you'll be diligently re proof reading your copy or firing whoever is responsible?😂😉

Thanks again though for a highly informative post. Excellent read. 👍🙏

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