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Something to grow IN my yew tree?
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New member here, hoping for some expert (and maybe novel?) advice.
We have a very old (estimated 600-yrs plus) yew tree in out back garden. Its diameter at 1.5m from the ground is over 5m. It's a substantial tree, and we've recently had it given a good health-check, feed, and general clean-up by experts. It's set, apparently to last another few hundred years. It was, when we moved in, covered in horrible ivy and brambles, which I removed. It now looks lovely.
However, there is one bit that isn't so easy to sort out. About 3m up it splits, and where it does there is a large cavity which contains, at my guess, about 2 barrow loads of compost/leaf mould. Formerly occupied by ivy and bramble roots, it's now just an area of 'soil'.
I know that if I leave it, it will be colonised by whatever the wind and birds bring in - around here, probably a mix of grass, acorns, rape seeds and other weeds. I want to plant something in it that will not only look decent, but which will help prevent it being colonised by the dreaded ivy.It seems pretty damp at most times, it's well shaded, and (obviously) out of the wind.
Any suggestions? All I can think of are maybe ferns, but something hanging would be nice.
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