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jkom51 wrote:
The next set of photos is in the lowest part of our property. It's shaded by two mature trees, a walnut and a maple. Thus, it gets winter sun but summer shade. The trees suck up moisture and nutrients in summer, and to make it worse it's the coldest area during our rainy winters. All of these make for hard conditions; even broom (cytisus) has had to struggle here.

Here's the silver maple bed: