What can you plant around pine trees?
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Agreed, Polly! Ever look at a pine forest!! If it is just a tree or two in your yard, treat it like any other big tree and don't try grass, but some sort of shade loving ground cover.
This is Pat, again. Just remembered a friend who lived in a piny area. She just put mulch under the pine trees and set a few pots with flowers. Their grass only grew between trees where the sun could shine. Hope this helps.
Here are a few good candidates (annuals and perennials): Impatiens, wallerana, trillium, lungwort, hellebores, Virginia bluebells, rhododendron, azalea, hydrangea, cardinal flower, hosta, Jacob's ladder, Canadian ginger, saxifraga, heuchera, hepatica, ferns, barren strawberry, big-root geranium, lily-of-the-valley, bishop's hat, dead nettle and sweet woodruff.
I agree with using the pots. Pine trees never let anything grow under them.
Maybe make a raised planter of wood or make a rock surround, weed net good soil n some flowers !??
hostas thrive as long as a small amount of sunshine