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.
Soil Requirements
Moist
Sun/Shade Requirements
Sun
Moist Sun Garden Plant List
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
Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Red Cedar)
Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic White Cedar)
Deciduous Trees
Amelanchier canadensis (Shadblow)
Magnolia virginiana ('Moon Glow' Sweetbay Magnolia)
Nyssa sylvatica (Black Gum)
Quercus bicolor (Swamp White Oak)
Betula nigra ('Heritage' River Birch)
Medium to Tall Grasses
Cephalanthus occidentalis (Button Bush)
Cornus racemosa ('Geauge' Gray Dogwood)
Cornus sericea ('Cardinal' Red-Osier Dogwood)
Medium to Tall Shrubs
Viburnum dentatum ('Blue Blaze' Arrowwood)
Viburnum trilobum (American Cranberry Viburnum)
Salix discolor (Pussy Willow)
Sambucus canadensis ('Adams' Elderberry)
Clethra alnifolia (Summer Sweet Bush)
Ilex verticillata (Winterberry)
Small Shrubs
Vaccinium angustifolium (Lowbush Blueberry)
Itea virginica ('Henry's Garnet' Virginia Sweetspire)
Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)
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