conifers

What will grow under a big conifer? my daughter has a large garden with a specimen conifer that was dead around the bottom she has trimmed away the dead stuff from the bottom and now has a height clearance of about two foot quite bare and ugly any suggestions please. :(

 

if it is a nice tree you mite cut back all branches to a height of 6 feet, that can make it look more impressive and allow a bit more lite in

 

Not a powerful lot will grow close to conifer trunks - too dry and too shady. That said my neighbours conifers are bare at the base, and because there is no fence, light gets there. Ivy, and cotoneaster - sown by the birds is doing Ok, as is erica - its very dry, but the light is goodish

 

Hi, right at the back of my garden there is a big cypress type conifer, not a lot of light and very dry. It was so over grown that nobody had been up there for years, so the plants there have had to grow unassisted. There is ivy, and snowdrops, aconites [?yellow shiny petals, violet shaped leaves] and a bit further away, arum, bluebells and comfrey. I thought I would try more woodland bulbs, and some more ivy varieties.

 

I have tried woodland type bulbs in a similer position, which seam to grow for a couple of years and then I re-plant.

 

Thank you all, I think we might go for Erica
there is quite a diverse range of colours and heights umm think thats the one.