Summer color is my gardend specialty.

Easy to grow plants that hang tough in the hot sun.

Plenty of food and cover for my bird friends and me.

Moist Sun

Moist Sun Garden Plant List

Region:  Northeast Upper Midwest Pacific Northwest Gulf Coast Texas Mid-Atlantic Lower Midwest Southwest Florida Southeast Ohio Valley Mountain States California

Soil:  Average Dry Moist Moist but well-drained Wet

Sun:  Filtered Shade Morning Sun / Afternoon Shade Shade Sun

Ornamental Grasses

Medium to Tall Grasses

Panicum virgatum ('Haense Herms' Switchgrass) Panicum virgatum ('Northwind' Switchgrass)

Perennials

Medium to Tall Perennials

Rudbeckia triloba (Three-lobed Coneflower) Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's Root) Physostegia virginiana ('Miss Manners' Obedient Plant) Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)

Trees and Shrubs

Conifers

Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic White Cedar) Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Red Cedar)

Deciduous Trees

Betula nigra ('Heritage' River Birch) Amelanchier canadensis (Shadblow) Magnolia virginiana ('Moon Glow' Sweetbay Magnolia) Nyssa sylvatica (Black Gum) Quercus bicolor (Swamp White Oak)

Medium to Tall Grasses

Cephalanthus occidentalis (Button Bush) Cornus racemosa ('Geauge' Gray Dogwood) Cornus sericea ('Cardinal' Red-Osier Dogwood)

Medium to Tall Shrubs

Sambucus canadensis ('Adams' Elderberry) Clethra alnifolia (Summer Sweet Bush) Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) Viburnum dentatum ('Blue Blaze' Arrowwood) Viburnum trilobum (American Cranberry Viburnum) Salix discolor (Pussy Willow)

Small Shrubs

Vaccinium angustifolium (Lowbush Blueberry) Itea virginica ('Henry's Garnet' Virginia Sweetspire) Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)