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Plants for tough areas in the garden!

Plants for those tough areas in the yard.

Plants for Wet Areas [*Will grow in shade]

Trees & Shrubs

Ash
Birch
Chokecherry
Dogwood
Elm
Larch
Maple
Oak
Poplar
Willow

Perennials

Creeping Jenny*
Elephant Ears
Globeflower*
Goatsbeard*
Iris (siberian)
Ostrich Fern*
Rayflower*
Snake Root*

Plants for Shade Areas [*Will tolerate full shade]

Trees & Shrubs

Snowberry
Coralberry
Cranberry
- Dwarf European*
Dogwood
Burning Bush
Flowering Rasberry*
Hydrangea
Ninebark
Rhododendron
Russian Cypress*
Sumac

Perennials

Anemone
Astilbe
Bleeding Heart
Coralbells
Creeping Jenny
Elephant Ear
Globeflower
Goatsbeard
Goutweed
Honeysuckle
Hosta
Lady’s Mantle
Lamium
Lily-of-the-valley
Monkshood
Ostrich Fern
Pulmonaria
Snake Root
Solomons Seal

Plants for Dry Shade

Trees & Shrubs

Dwarf European Cranberry
Ninebark
- some varieties
Snowball Viburnum
Snowberry
Sumac

Perennials

Elephant Ears
Goatsbeard
Goutweed
Lady’s Mantle
Lily-of-the-valley
Pulmonaria
Solomons Seal

Plants for Hot Dry Sun

Trees & Shrubs

Ash
Buffaloberry
Caragana
Currant
Honeysuckle
Spruce
Juniper
- some varieties
Pincherry
Pine
Potentilla
- once established
Russian Olive
Buckbrush
Sea Buckthorn

Perennials

Baby’s Breath
Blanketflower
Blue Fescue
Blue Sage
Coneflower
Daylily
Globe Thistle
Hens & Chicks
Liatris
Russian Sage
Sage
Snow-in-summer
Soapwart

Plants deer don’t like and will choose last

Trees & Shrubs

Barberry
Butterfly Bush
Colorado Spruce
Junipers
Paper Birch
Pine
Russian Olive
Viburnum
- Cranberries
- Mohican Wayfaring Tree
- Nannyberry

Perennials & Annuals

Artemesia
Astilbe
Bee Balm
Begonia
Bleeding Heart
Chives & Allium
Daffodils
Dahlia
Dusty Miller
Ferns
Foxglove
Gaillardia
Goatsbeard
Heuchera

Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia) – Perennials

4″ pot

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Pink Bleeding Hearts – Perennials (Shade)

(1 gallon pots)

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Creeping Lamium (Nettle) – Perennials (Sun or Shade)

(various sizes)

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Ty Heembrock

Ty is our general manager and has a huge passion for plants and gardening. He is well versed in all aspects of growing but finds pest management and studying organic growing methods to be the most interesting.