I noticed these plants blooming in the woodland garden this afternoon. These came from my friend Diane’s garden. She paid a landscape designer years ago to design the garden around her Seattle home. The designer was obviously not in tune with the plants she chose. One huge mistake was that she introduced an invasive, weedy cinquefoil as a groundcover. The other big mistake was that she planted Pachysandra terminalis in full sun on sandy soil as a ground cover. I helped root out the misplaced Japanese spurge and brought some home to our shady woodland garden.

The plants have done much better and have spread and bloom nicely every year now that they are in spot that matches their tastes.

These plants don’t need much in 2020, but I might dust the area with some organic fertilizer to give them a bit of a boost. They share their bed with a Japanese maple and a Nandina, so there is a tussle for nutrients.