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Shade and Acid Soil Tolerant Herbs

Asked by:

Chris Peterson

Posted at:

January 26, 2025

I have a bare area under colorado blue spruce. The blue spruce drops lots of needles. The soil is very acidic. What will grow under it? The area also has afternoon sun.
The herbs that you might try under the spruce are: aconite, avens, lemon balm, bayberry, bay laurel(zone 8-10), bilberry, bloodroot, blueberry, borage, chicory, sweet cicely, clivers, black cohosh, purple foxglove, hops, common marjoram, mints, patchouli(tropical), pennyroyal(zone 6-9), perilla, periwinkle, pokeroot, sassafras, strawberries, tormentil, turtlehead, wintergreen, sweet woodruff.