Re: Fall Planting of ferns

In a message dated 9/15/99 3:30:35 PM Central Daylight Time,
nsshlaes@AMERITECH.NET writes:

<< 2)  Will they be all right under the silver maple?  What else can you
 knowledgeable shade people suggest to put under the silver maple with
 them (or without them)/
  >>

I have 2 huge silver maples in back.  I've got wild ginger and sweet woodruff
increasing nicely under mine.  Also planted under them are
Jack-in-the-pulpits, Trilliums, wild geraniums, twinleaf, Jacob's ladder,
white and red baneberries, some ...hmmm, actually a good part of my
wildflower gardens are under my silver maples.

I just let the leaves fall where they want and sometimes I add compost or
leaf mulch to them.  They are pretty much left to themselves except that I
pull the maple seedlings out by the hundreds... I also run the sprinkler now
and then when it's real dry, but not as much as I do in my hosta gardens.  I
suppose that if these same plants were growing under deeper rooted trees
they'd increas faster, but I think they are doing ok, considering.

I'd also go for it..I plant whenever I have the time, which isn't always when
it's best.  But I do feel fall is a good time for it.
Cindy Johnson
White Bear Lake, MN
zone 4a
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