I have a large Norway Maple on my small front yard. Virtually anything I try to plant in my raised garden plot gets choked out by the maple's incidious surface root system. I try and dig out root material in order to give the plantings a fair chance - but the roots fill back in in no time. Other than sinking rigid pots into the garden plots - any advice as to how I can deal with the roots and introduce a little interest into my front yard?
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Read this article. You have Dry Shade. There is a list of native plants that might work, although your tree is not native, so not sure.
Also read part 1 and part 2.
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Good luck! (I have Dry shade too, and after reading this, my plants are growing under the trees)
Take a read here [url]http://www.eman-rese.ca/partners/adoptapond/urbanoutback/part35.html[/url]
and here [url]http://forestry.about.com/od/treeplanting/p/bad_normaple.htm[/url]
You may be better to just get rid of the tree as it sounds like they are trouble.