What to plant under trees

Will asked 14 years ago

I have a woodland area in the garden (about 25 metres long by 4 metres wide) which is under deciduous trees with very little light getting in during Summer.I want to have a Pathway and on edges some colour Will Grass grow under the trees (as the pathway) and what would you recommend for planting at each side of the pathway . There was a lot of Ivy there which I have killed with roundup so its pretty bare now under the trees.

1 Answers

Gerry Daly Staff answered 6 years ago
Ivy is an excellent ground-cover under trees, naturally adapted to shade. Ivy will normally grow back from Roundup.

Other possibilities include ferns, epimediums, asarum, london pride, luzula, dianella. francoa and libertia.

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