Baton Rouge is located in Zone 8 for plants as i found out. I found several links for shade plants that I think will help everyone.
This first link is actually from one of our rival’s Mississippi State,
http://msucares.com/lawn/landscape/types/shadelist.html
These next links aren’t as organized as the MSU link but do provide more options,
http://www.backyardgardener.com/shade/zone8.html
http://www.naturehills.com/catalog/Perennials/Full_Shade_Perennials.aspx?page=0
This last link has plants that are suitable for Deep Shade,
http://www.backyardgardener.com/shade/index2.html
I know some people were interested in plants for Phytoremediation. Phytoremediation is the use of certain plants to clean up soil, sediment, and water contaminated with metals and/or organic contaminants. This first link that I found gives a good overview about the subject and has charts that can be useful in understanding how Phytoremdiation is used and its advantages/disadvantages,
http://www.envirotools.org/factsheets/phytoremediation.shtml
This link gives plant types, what types of contaminants it cleans up, what phytoremediation process it uses, and comments from this websites study, http://www.superorg.net/archive/proposal/plant%20species%20phyto.pdf
to be continued…
