If you plant it, it will need water. Why not leave the pine needles down? We use them as mulch all the time down here in the South.

I have lots of native plants growing under my pine tree. How high up is the tree limbed? The higher the better.

I use a mass planting of lancifolia hosta under my white pine.

I have vinca growing under mine and it is doing very well.

Sweet woodruff is my favorite.

I have a 30 ft. Norway Spruce tree on the nne exposed corner of my front yard, with multitudes of weeds etc. growing under it. I want to clear it out and plant sturdy evergreen ground cover that will inhibit grapevines, weed trees, poison ivy, etc. I'm considering sweet woodruff, vinca and lily of the valley.

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