gardening under walnut trees
cheleinri
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Shrubs Under Black Walnut Trees
Comments (4)I have a variety of honeysuckle shrub (can't find a good photo of it while in bloom) but it is extremely close to a walnut. Under the canopy a few feet away but has matured well. I wish I had a photo of it in bloom. It is amazingly covered in bloom and all the neighbors comment on it being so full of bloom with it planted so close to that walnut tree, but it thrives there. Not the shrub you mentioned in your original thread...but...maybe an option? This was actually planted the first year we learned our problem with all our plants dying on our raised flower beds. Juglone being the main issue. I told the nursery staff...give me something that will live under my tree and I will be back next year to pick your brain on my landscape materials. And it's thrived! This post was edited by cadillactaste on Tue, Jun 24, 14 at 13:44...See MorePlants under walnut and oak tree
Comments (2)There is a forum on here called plants for difficult places with many discussions about growing under/around walnuts. Virginia Tech has a good info sheet with lists of plants that don't mind juglone, and ones that are super-sensitive to it....See MoreShrubs under Black Walnut Trees
Comments (3)http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/factsheets2/tree/dec94pr1.html The Virginia Coop. Ext. Serv. used to have a publication titled "What grows under black walnuts?" cited above. Unfortunately, the link no longer works. Try to contact them directly or use the Wayback Machine....See MoreWhat to plant under Walnut tree?
Comments (9)Cara, this is our 19th spring here. There are mature black walnut trees in our yard and we have removed several. When we came here tall garden phlox, iris, daffodils, and star of Bethelehem were already well established and still going strong. We recently had some of the black walnut trees trimmed and are expanding a garden area around them including spiderwort, daylilies, dame's rocket and stoksia. Where we removed 2 black walnuts that had been growing close together we have established a bed of several kinds of iris, varigated periwinkle, a sweet brier rose, tiger lilies and a crape myrtle. We have found a hickory horned devil caterpillar and others. We also have the beautiful luna moths. I have some old photos of them I could load if anyone would like to see the pictures. EP...See Morelisa03
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