paul wheaton wrote:There are very few things that will grow under or near a conifer. Blueberries being the most popular. If you like lots and lots of blueberries, that might be your best bet!
Actually Here in the lower mt. forest of CO currants, gamble oaks, and mountain mahoghany love to grow under the Ponderosa pines... and a plant which I don't know but looks like a comfrey/sorrel... not the best plants to live off of but a cool food producing guild would be all those plants mentioned plus sorrel, comfrey, and strawberries... and if you wanted to build one from scratch a Siberian/Korean Nut Pine, with crandall clove currants, mountain mahoghany, gamble oak shrub layer, a sorrel/comfrey/borage herbaceous layer, and strawberry ground cover would be killer!!! However Paul is right in that not much grows under Douglas Fir or any other thicker montane forest species...
