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Best hardy bulbs for woodland?

tomtuxman
9 years ago

Come Spring, I'm ripping out a large patch of despised invasive English Ivy from my unbuilt lot that has a lot of nice, mostly evergreen, trees. I previously dug up a whole mess of wild raspberry from this area. Although tasty, they had to go because they were spreading rapidly.

OK, so I've decided to go naturalized and semi-tamed. There's a lot of squirrel action around here and I get the occasional deer.

So my criteria are (a) hardy -- this is zone 6b and it's 21 degrees F outside as I write, (b) very shade tolerant, and (c) not salad bar for those critters who want to munch or dig up bulbs. Prefer but do not require natives.

I'm thinking snowdrops, cyclamen, lily-of-valley, arum italicum, coupled with lady slippers, bleeding hearts, aquilegia and wild clematis.

Does this sound as if it will fulfill my criteria?

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