{"id":1357,"date":"2016-06-22T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:22:53","slug":"planting-under-evergreen-trees-in-dry-soil-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/planting-under-evergreen-trees-in-dry-soil-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Under Evergreen Trees In Dry Soil Conditions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planting under evergreen trees in dry soil conditions:<br \/>\nPlanting under evergreen trees presents a few problems,firstly the<br \/>\nconditions are normally quite dry because of the tree and secondly the<br \/>\nsoil under most evergreen trees including conifers is quite acid.<br \/>\nNormally both these problems can be solved by adding spent mushroom<br \/>\ncompost that is a good source of organic mater and lime.The organic<br \/>\nmatter will help hold moisture in the soil and make it available to<br \/>\nplants and the the lime will lower the soil pH.<br \/>\nSome suitable plants for under an evergreen tree include ferns,<br \/>\nSkimmias,Sarcococca(beautifully scented in winter),Rhododendrons<br \/>\n(depending on your soil type) Hellebores,Snowdrops,Cyclamen,<br \/>\nBrunnera,Pulmonaria,Epimediums,Foxgloves.However if it is under a<br \/>\nconifer or an evergreen hedge then you are looking for plants that<br \/>\nlike dry shade like Polystichum ferns,Ivy(there are many different<br \/>\nleaved ones)butchers broom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planting under evergreen trees in dry soil conditions: Planting under evergreen trees presents a few problems,firstly the conditions are normally quite dry because of the tree and secondly the soil under most evergreen trees&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}