Planting ideas for the beech tree border

Concept planting plan dry border under beech tree

Early spring under beech tree

SHRUBS

• Sarcococca confusa (sweet box) – one of the best, winter fragrance
• Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon grape) – very tolerant
• Ruscus aculeatus (butcher’s broom) – incredibly tough
• Hypericum calycinum (Rose of Sharon)
• Aucuba japonica – very tolerant of dry shade
• Ribes sanguineum (flowering currant) – worth trying
• Lonicera fragrantissima – best positioned at edge of canopy

PERENNIALS & GROUNDCOVER

• Cyclamen hederifolium – excellent
• Pulmonaria (lungwort)
• Epimedium (barrenwort) – superb choice
• Geranium phaeum (dusky cranesbill)
• Brunnera macrophylla
• Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae – very tough
• Liriope muscari
• Bergenia
• Pachysandra terminalis – excellent, specifically evolved for this
• Waldsteinia ternata (barren strawberry)
• Lamium galeobdolon (yellow archangel)
• Anemone × hybrida (Japanese anemone)
• Iris foetidissima
• Helleborus foetidus and other hellebores

FERNS

• Asplenium scolopendrium (hart’s tongue fern)
• Polystichum setiferum (soft shield fern)
• Dryopteris filix-mas (male fern)
• Dryopteris affinis

BULBS

• Anemone blanda
• Galanthus (snowdrops)
• Arum italicum
• English bluebells
• Wood anemones