Hello, your help would be much appreciated because we have run out of ideas!
I live in Melbourne, Australia (which has a Mediterranean climate) in a large apartment block with an open internal courtyard. See photo. We have 3 large planter boxes with healthy olive trees growing in them. The courtyard gets sunshine throughout the middle of the day for several hours.
However we would like to grow some ground cover under the olives to cover the mulch. We have tried geraniums and herbs (eg parsley, thyme, etc) but they haven't survived either because it's too dry or too little direct sunshine or the soil type is wrong, - or something else! (the olives are watered from the base via water reservoirs around the perimeter of the plastic planter box).
Do you have any suggestions?
Many thanks
Hugh Hungerford
Hi Hugh
The following plants will take part shade : Myoporum parvifolium - low growing ground cover small white flowers .
Euonymus fortuni 'Silver Queen' and Festuca glauca - both these have silver leaves and will take part shade.