I Have A Mulch Garden Under Pine Trees

I would like to add some low flowering plants to the mulch garden but we get an incredibly amount of spruce needles. What plants do you suggest

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#1 Comment By BushDoctor On 04/29/2020 @ 4:54 pm

It will be very difficult to find something that will go well under pines, since they are allelopathic. This means that they tend to kill any plants around its, immediate, area.

Your best bet would be to try acid loving plants. Though many will not work, you may come across something that will.

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