Petasites japonica looks good in spring

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Brad Salmon, zone 5b/6 Southern Indiana
Winters -20 to -25C. Summers 30 to 35C , humid. 115 cm annual precipitation, frost free from May through early October. 259.3 meters elevation. Growing 150+ species. http://www.needmorebamboo.com/

Those are about 4-5' tall? Are you saying that it looks worse during the summer?

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Alan.
My blog: It's not work, it's gardening!

They like a lot of water otherwise they don't look so good!

I should check to see how tall the ones I have are, the last I looked they were in that range, possibly larger.

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Southern Indiana. Theoretically the same climate as 'needmore' & 'Eastlandia'.
My Bamboo List.

Wooooo!!!! I have 16 foot tall Moso in Southern Indiana!

I recall mowing them down last summer as they looked crappy - not drought related, I don't think.

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Brad Salmon, zone 5b/6 Southern Indiana
Winters -20 to -25C. Summers 30 to 35C , humid. 115 cm annual precipitation, frost free from May through early October. 259.3 meters elevation. Growing 150+ species. http://www.needmorebamboo.com/

Mine has never done anything exciting. Maybe too much shade, not for lack of water. So I move a little piece to a sunny place along the pond, and something I think ate it, muskrat or goose, not sure. So will have to divide it again and try to get it started in more spots.

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Lance Kleckner
http://www.bigfootwillow.com