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Aesculus pavia

20 years ago

This was a gift about 4 yrs ago. Got any ideas for under it other than the La. Iris & penstenmon that planted themselves there ?

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Here is a link that might be useful: Gingers Flower Garden

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terrestrial_man
20 years ago
depending on the length of sunlight the area receives and on if you water the area or it is all natural and how humsy the soil is you may want to attempt an Asarum species or species or hybrids. Here is a common one
Iris GW
20 years ago
Ginger is very nice, but I like the native ones better. The evergreen gingers have been moved to the genus hexastylis (like hexastylis shuttleworthii, very nice one) and the deciduous ones remain in the asarum genus (like asarum canadense). Information on the web has not always been updated for this change.

That's a beautiful specimen, Ginger (is that a coincidence it is your name too and we were just talking about gingers?). A cluster of the small native iris like iris cristata or iris verna would also be nice. People always exclaim over the miniature size. Creeping groundcovers like Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) or partridge berry are nice.

Here is a link that might be useful: Chrysogonum virginianum
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ArborBluffGirl
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What about something that gets around 2-3 feet tall so it will hide the sparseness of the lower branches? Depending upon light what about: ferns, amsonia, baneberry, turtleheads, goatsbeard, little henry sweetspire, azalea or blue cohosh and then the groundcovers mixed in? Nice looking specimen by the way.

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