Part IV - Living Walls - Borders & Hedges: Yews and Hemlocks: Any suggestions for evergreen ground cover?

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Top 1.   Mar 15, 2004 6:23 PM

» washingtonarms - Any suggestions for evergreen ground cover?

Marge,

You've been so helpful in the past, I was hoping you could help me out with another project...

I'm helping my mother-in-law with some landscaping, and was trying to find an evergreen ground cover for an area of her backyard that is about 20' by 20' under a large maple tree (so it gets a lot of shade, but some light gets through at different times of the day). The area is never flooded and never has standing water, but it is almost always muddy. I was looking to plant something like pachysandra or ivy. Do you think they will grow in these conditions, or do you have any other suggestions?

Right now, it is mainly brush and weeds, with some skunk cabbage. The home is located in the Pocono area, in northeastern Pennsylvania (which puts it right on the border of zones 6 & 7).

Thanks!

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