Pulmonaria will struggle in dry shade, which is what you'll have at the foot of a conifer hedge. Mine struggle under ash trees where they get rained on for half the year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ferns prefer filtered sunlight with damp soil - Ferns die more from drying out than anything else. That does not sound like the bottom of a hedge which will be shaded and very dry depending on which face you plant. Soil is also very acidic under a conifer hedge...so unless you can find a Fern variety that like dry soil I would steer you away from them.
@Verdun, am sure that you know that the bottom of conifers is especially dry and raped of nutrients. Dryopteris will not do well there - they can deal with dry spells but are hardly succulents and they prefer dampish well draining soil.
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Pulmonaria will struggle in dry shade, which is what you'll have at the foot of a conifer hedge. Mine struggle under ash trees where they get rained on for half the year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ferns prefer filtered sunlight with damp soil - Ferns die more from drying out than anything else. That does not sound like the bottom of a hedge which will be shaded and very dry depending on which face you plant. Soil is also very acidic under a conifer hedge...so unless you can find a Fern variety that like dry soil I would steer you away from them.
Red Dahlia: try cropping your photos before sending - that sometimes works.
Not the most thrilling of things until it flowers but I have Crocosmia at the base of a short conifer hedge. It does get sun from mid-day.
@Verdun, am sure that you know that the bottom of conifers is especially dry and raped of nutrients. Dryopteris will not do well there - they can deal with dry spells but are hardly succulents and they prefer dampish well draining soil.
I've also got some Kerria growing there as well. But as I said it does get "some" sun.
I'd either extend the border, 2 foot is very narrow, nor do away with it
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