AT A GLANCE
Which plants are suitable for underplanting maples?
Gladly used for underplanting:
- Periwinkle and Golden Strawberry
- elf flower and cranesbill
- hostas and ferns
- sedges
- ivy
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Underplant maples with perennials
If you want to plant perennials under your maple, make sure that these flat in the ground root and shade tolerant are. The underplanting with perennials is particularly beautiful if they produce dense foliage and colorful flowers. This is able to make the rather dark maple light up from below. These perennials blend in wonderfully at the foot of the maple:
- Heartleaf Foam Blossom
- elf flower
- bluebells
- cranesbill
- silver leaf
- hosta
Underplant maples with ground covers
Ground covers create on and around the tree disc of the maple a lush green carpet. However, you should use the
bad light conditions and the part shallow roots and their root pressure get by Undemanding and adaptable ground covers such as:- ivy
- Small periwinkle
- golden strawberry
- wood anemone
A little further away from the trunk, you can plant groundcover that likes it moister and needs more light:
- deadnettle
- fat man
- Muehlenbeckia
Underplant maple with ornamental grasses
An underplanting with ornamental grasses looks a little more dynamic, with these blending in with the shady and dry conditions should be able to make friends on the tree disc of the maple. Underplantings with grasses, the color of which contrasts with that of the maple, are particularly beautiful. Fantastic you can for example the Japanese maple stage with grasses. Good to all maple species fit among other things:
- sedges
- Japan forest grass
- Japan gold ribbon grass
- Black snake beard
Underplant maples with ferns
If you decide to use ferns for underplanting the maple, keep in mind that these not too big should be. Some distance from Tree trunk the following ferns look particularly beautiful:
- Polypody
- Soft shield fern
- red veil fern
- spiral staircase fern
Plant maple in the tub
A maple can also be optically enhanced in a bucket with underplanting and at the same time benefit from the shading in the root area. For an underplanting in the bucket should preferably low ground cover or. smaller perennials serve. These include, for example:
- Cushion Bellflower
- cranesbill
- lady's mantle
- golden strawberry
Tip
Emphasize Acer with evergreen or colorful plants
Since the maple is rather plain in color for most of the year and leafless during the winter, are underplantings with evergreen plants, but also with colorful flowering specimens advantageous.
