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   "Kris Krieger"  wrote in message   
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   > "Michael Bulatovich"  wrote in   
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   >> Kris Krieger wrote:   
   > [snip]   
   >>>   
   >>> I guess I've just never had that much trouble.  Having plants do   
   >>> poorly, or die, has never been a problem for me - usually, the   
   >>> problem is that they do almost *too* well.  On the rare occasions   
   >>> I've lost something, the error was usually a result of trusting   
   >>> someone else to do a job and for some reason not checking (or not   
   >>> being able to check) that it was done and/or maintained correctly.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe it's because I garden under a Black Walnut.....   
   >>   
   >   
   > Having never been in a position to need to research that, I haven't, so I   
   > can't comment, or suggest anything re: understory planting around a your   
   > tree, esp. in your climate zone - I also don't knwo you rsoil type.  And I   
   > don't have much time to research all that, either, as I'm trying to help   
   > my   
   > cousin with her new house yard (also a differnt climate zone and soil   
   > type), and decide what to do in my own yard this year, now that most of   
   > the   
   > trees and large (well, eventually...) shrubs are in place.   
      
   I could be wrong but I thought I heard something about walnuts killing   
   anything that grows close to them.   
   I know they make a helluva racket on a tin roof and they seem to get along   
   decently with shaggy bark hickory's.   
      
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