Plants for specific Needs

Sometimes it helps to have a quick reference list when you are trying to match plants to specific growing conditions. The lists that follow should help guide your selections.

Plants for Clay Soil

• Coneflower (Echinacea)
• Rudbeckia Baptisia
• Ornamental Grass (Miscanthus, Panicum)

Drought Tolerant Plants for Sun

• Agastache
• Caryopteris Daylily (Hemerocallis)
• Gaillardia
• Nepeta
• Drought tolerant Gaillardia
• Salvia (some)
• Sedum
• Yucca
  

Plants for Shade

• Actaea (Cimicifuga)
• Brunnera
• Daphne
• Dicentra
• Digitalis
• Fern
• Fothergilla
• Helleborus 
• Hellebore
• Heuchera
• Heucherella
• Hosta
• Hydrangea
• Ornamental Grass (Carex, Hakonechloa)
• Pulmonaria
• Tiarella
• Tricyrtis

Plants for Sun

• Agastache
• Baptisia
• Berberis
• Buddleia
• Caryopteris
• Cercis
• Coneflower (Echinacea)
• Coreopsis
• Cotinus
• Daisies (Leucanthemum, Rudbeckia)
• Daylilies (Hemerocallis)
• Delosperma
• Euphorbia
• Gaillardia
• Hibiscus
• Monarda
• Nepeta
• Ornamental Grass (Pennisetum)
• Phlox
• Roses
• Salvia
• Scabiosa
• Sedum
• Thuja
• Vine (Clematis)
• Yucca

Plants that Tolerate Moisture

• Actaea (Cimicifuga)
• Astrantia
• Eupatorium
• Ferns
• Daylilies (Hemerocallis) 
• Hibiscus
• Ornamental Grass (Carex, Hakonechloa)
• Ligularia
• Monarda
• Sambucus
  

Easy-care, Low Maintenance Perennials

• Daisies (Leucanthemum, Rudbeckia)
• Daylilies (Hemerocallis)
• Delosperma
• Geranium
• Ornamental Grass
• Helleborus
• Heuchera
• Heucherella
• Hostas
• Sedum
• Tiarella
• Tricyrtis
• Yucca

Long Blooming Perennials

• Agastache
• Coreopsis
• Daisy (Leucanthemum, Rudbeckia)
• Daylilies (reblooming)
• Delosperma
• Echinacea (Coneflower)
• Gaillardia
• Geranium
• Helleborus
• Hibiscus
• Nepeta
• Salvia
• Phlox
• Salvia
• Scabiosa

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