In a past life I had a garden on an old street with many walnut trees also known as Juglans Regia. It did not take long before I noticed that a lot of the plants I was planting were dying;petunias, peonies, roses and impatiens would just not grow or bloom. Doubts about my garden competence began to worry me at night.

Low and behold it turns out that walnuts are a garden problem because there are quite a few plants that just can’t live underneath them. A poison called juglone oozes out of the roots of the walnut tree and contaminates the plants below-it is not a good idea to eat anything grown beneath a walnut…not sure if that is true or just some kind of urban legend). Take a look upward to see if you have a walnut tree and this might explain why your hanging fuschia plants keep dying. Your garden problems might be solved if you are dealing with a walnut tree!

Fear not! If you have a walnut tree in your landscape do not fear. A walnut tree is actually something all your neighbors will be envious of because of the beauty and shade it provides. Where could be a nicer place to spend a hot afternoon than underneath a walnut. Not to mention all the wonderful walnuts you can collect for whatever you use them for.

Here is a pretty thorough list of plants that I have had success growing under my walnut trees:

Annual plants that can grow under a walnut tree:

Pansie

Begonia

Marigold

Morning Glory

Flower Bulbs:

Winter Aconite

Narcissus

Tulip

Blue Scilla

Snow Drop

Perennial plants that can grow beneath a walnut tree:

Aster

Common Milkweed (A Main stay in my garden!)

Hosta

Many ferns, for example Japanese Painted Fern

Coral Bell

Day Lilly

Pachysandra

Black Eyed Susan

Spider Wort

Dutchman’ Breeches

Violet

Bugle Weed

Jack in the Pulpit

Wild Geranium

Joe-Pye Weed

Creeping Phlox

Sedum

Trillium

Bee Balm

Shrubs that can grow beneath a walnut tree:

Boxwood

Oakleaf Hydrangea

This is perhaps not the longest list and I am positive that many more plants would or could do well; these are just the ones I have tried and had success with in the garden’s I take care of and my own garden. Good luck and hope that this will help you with any questions about what you can grow around your walnut trees. And you know, if all else fails under your walnut tree then put some cool garden decor, recycled glass gazing ball or perhaps a recycled glass bird feeder there to provide the area with some extra visual interest!

A incredible number of people now fully understand that a beautifully well maintained garden can add an incredibly large amount of extra cash value to their house. Not only that, a well designed yard can greatly enhance the amount of useful space for your family and you. Because of these reasons, and a few more besides, landscaping has, over the years, increased to become an incredibly popular hobby. High on the list for most gardeners is a wonderful yearly display of colorful and varied flowers.

While many garden designers opt to create color by using annual flowers, others decide that using  perennials is the better method.  Annual flowers are those flowers which {grow, flower and die|germinate, develop, bloom and die} all in the single year whereas perennial garden plants will continue to flower year upon year. Obviously there are plus points and minus points for both annual flowers and garden perennials and landscape gardening is all about deciding which is the most suitable mix of the two.

Many people have heart warming memories of distant days spent in a grandfather’s garden enjoying the wonderous fragrances of many old fashioned favorite perennial garden fowers. Unfortunately it can be rather difficult for even the most keen gardener (including some seasoned professionals) to emulate old fashioned gardens because a large number of the specific types/cultivars can no longer be purchased. Happily many of the older cultivars have been superseded by strains which are much more resistant to disease, so you can often discover suitable replacements which show hardly any (other) difference to the old fashioned plant.

Traditional Perennial Flowers

One of the most popular perennial garden fowers used in gardening today is the Achillea ptarmica which was first used in American gardens in colonial days when it was brought over from Europe. Achillea is a very old fashioned plant used since the days of the Greek hero Achilles (from whom the plant gets it’s name) who used it to help heal his soldiers. Achillea can stop bleeding and works amazingly well at healing wounds.

Achillea

Achillea ptarmica has really pretty flat clusters of small blooms that look rather daisy like. Achillea  come with flower heads in a selection of colors ranging from various shades of yellows, whites and pinks. Yarrow are considered by most gardeners to be considerably easy perennial garden fowers to cultivate. They are so easy to propagate because they are considerably invasive plants which can be seen growing on the poorest of soil. If you wish to see success with Yarrow the only thing is to avoid growing in boggy or poorly drained soil. The plants are well able tolerating drought conditions. Achillea ptarmica and Achillea millefolium are two of the more popular varieties but there are various other types available.

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