My north-facing front garden has clusters of birch either side, and I'm wanting to mass plant something strappy like liriope muscari underneath. I've also contemplated arthropodium matapouri bay. Anyone have experience or thoughts on these? Thanks!
by SalsaShark89
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We’ve got a few clusters of liriopes and they’re lovely. Very low maintenance which is a win in my garden
They are an absolute banger choice for shady spots under trees, you’ve got brilliance inside of you friend!
Great low maintenance clumping ground cover. Some varieties get scraggly in winter and require cutting back
At an old house we had a long shitty section beside the fence on the Western side. Hot in Summer, mostly shady in Winter. We grew Agapanthas with a border of variegated Lyriopes. It actually looked really nice all year. I rate them as a border plant or planted in mass drifts.
Yeah, they’re shit. Evergreen Giant gets mangled by cold weather and creates a fuckton of dead leaf debris. If you want low maintenance, they’re not it.
We have two patches of them! The ones that are under deciduous trees flower amazingly and looks lush all year round, even after snow! We don’t have to cut this patch back at all, and there is hardly any die back leaves at the base.
The other patch gets a lot of heat and more frost than the other patch, so they tend to yellow off at the end of summer/through winter and we cut it back just before spring with a hedge trimmer.
Edit- also the arthropodium I find that its leaves don’t cope with more than a couple of frosts or cold overnights. The plant itself comes back no probs but the leaves look scraggly and not lush for basically some of autumn and all of winter, and mine are in a fairly protected area.
They are super easy to care for though!!
I have never seen them like this in normal garden
Don’t forget to cut them back once a year, optionally.