Re: RE : Ground Cover??

Gene, do you have hypericum androsaemum?
Bonnie ETN Zone 7


> [Original Message]
> From: Gene Bush <genebush@otherside.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 9/26/2005 8:38:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] RE : Ground Cover??
>
> Hello Rich,
>     You say "nothing really grows there". I am assuming a few things do,
but 
> not well? Do the limbs come back all the way to the ground around the
tree, 
> forming a screen?
>     Know I am speaking heresy here, but if nothing will grow there now, I 
> would not plant anything under the tree. Mulch, move in a nice
arrangement 
> with a bench, large containers, a big rock or two... go sit there and
read a 
> book instead of trying to grow something. Sounds as though the willow is 
> getting all the moisture....
>     This is all rather difficult to do without paying you a visit and 
> actually seeing what you are describing......
> Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> genebush@munchkinnursery.com
> Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Apking" <red4@omni-tech.net>
>
> > Hey Gene,
> > A question, what kind of ground cover type stuff can I plant under a
river
> > willow?  Mowing under it is terrible, and nothing really grows there. 
> > This
> > will be in the Northern edge of Z-5.  Thanks in advance for your sage
> > advice.  Rich in Z-5
>
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