Wet and Dry Locations

Dry Locations

It’s summer and it hasn’t rained in over a month. The temperature is 95 degrees. You think to yourself that it is much cooler than yesterday. You have watched your neighbor watering his plants twice daily for the past 4 weeks. From the comfort of your air-conditioned living room, you are reminded that your plants will survive the drought because you were thoughtful enough to use material that will adapt to dry conditions. Nice work!

Perennials

Artemesia
Lirope
Sedum
Baby’s Breath
Gaillardia
Campanula
Gaura
Penstemon
Coreopsis
Coneflower
Yucca
Dianthus
Lamb’s Ear
Rudbeckia
Daylily
Lamium
Russian Sage
Lavender

Trees

Hawthorn
Pine
Honeylocust
Oak
Maple
Hornbeam
Linden
Golden Rain Tree

Shrubs

Bayberry
Kerria
Smoke Bush
Boxwood
Mock Orange
Spirea
Butterfly Bush
Potentilla
Viburnum
Cotoneaster
Privet
Witch Hazel
Juniper
Pyracantha

Ornamental Grasses

Fountain Grass
Miscanthus
Fescue

Wet Locations

YOUR BACKYARD IS A SWAMP!!! You have tried for years to plant something that will live, but nothing works. Believe it or not, there are plants that will survive in wet environments. You just haven’t heard about them until now. Try some of these.

Here are some varieties that thrive with “wet feet”:

Flowering and Deciduous Shrubs

Itea
Laurel
Dogwood
Perennials
Spiderwort

Shade Trees

Birch
Bald Cypress
Willow
Dawn Redwood
Maple
Sweetgum
Zelkova

Unusual Plants

Carolina Silverbell
Paperbark Maple