Japanese Maples: Underplanting, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
It's those few zone 7 nights that will get you! I can't grow zone 10 plants here because they will definitely croak and I'm not one to lift plants. Brunnera is another very pretty underplanting too. I don't know how callas grow in your zone but they tend to get invasive here unless they are the pretty smaller cultivars.

Here's a planting with mother fern, heuchera, hellebore, ferns, there is an azalea, mondo grass and hosta and some yesterday, today and tomorrow. The astilbe is in the raised planter and this was before I put in the spotted ligularia. These are all shade plants because the tree is very wide and dense.

Just have a ball. Let your imagination run wild and enjoy.