While logged in and authenticated, you will not be asked to solve any complicated Recaptcha V2 challenges. In addition, all pages on Bizapedia will be served to you completely ad freeĪnd you will be granted access to view every profile in its entirety, even if the company chooses to hide the private information on their profile from the general public. “Let’s Grow” is published weekly column archives are on the “Garden Advice” page at For more information is available at or call GoodSeed Farm Landscapes at (937) 587-7021.Your entire office will be able to use your search subscription. Steve Boehme is a landscape designer/installer specializing in landscape “makeovers”. A year later they are fresh and perky on the hottest afternoon. Container-grown Black-eyed Susan plants sometimes need watering twice a day when first planted. One thing to remember is that some of the most drought-tolerant plants actually need more frequent watering when they are first planted. Add to this a long list of drought-tolerant annuals such as geranium, marigold, cleome, portulaca and petunia, and you can have a pretty spectacular garden all through the long, hot summer. We can suggest many more perennials over a broad spectrum of colors we could call a “xeriscape paintbox”. ![]() Here’s a list of preferred perennials for dry conditions: Aster, Coneflower, Daylily, Coneflower, Epimedium, Iris, Lavender, Leucanthemum, Rudbeckia, Sage, Sedum, and Yarrow. Suggested shrub families for xeriscaping include Barberry, Boxwood, Smokebush, Cotoneaster, Deutzia, Juniper, Taxus, Russian Olive, Privet, Honeysuckle, Ninebark, Potentilla, Buckthorn, Rosa Rugosa (shrub rose), Spirea, Lilac, Viburnum and Euonymus (burning bush). This is a clue that hybrids of these species will survive here. In southern Ohio woods you’ll see native sumac, serviceberry, euonymus, hackberry and viburnum. That’s why they are so often used for street tree plantings, where they must survive surrounded by hot, dry pavement. Trees like Gingko, American Holly, London Planetree, ornamental Pear, and Zelkova will tolerate drought better than average. These have amazing survival ability, but they don’t have the glamour and name recognition of the more fragile Dogwood and Red Maple. This may mean that we have to find beauty in trees like thornless Honeylocust, Hornbeam and Hawthorn. But the lesson here is that to have the best chance to survive drought your landscape plants should be native to this part of Ohio. These plants are native to the southwest and wouldn’t do well here anyway. We’re not suggesting that you start planting saguaro cactus and prickly pear in your landscape. ![]() Plants with this characteristic are often silvery or gray in color and have fine hairs on their leaves, like Dusty Miller and Lavender. Another survival technique is leaves that don’t allow much evaporation. Others, like the oak, have “tap roots” that can find water deep in the soil. Some plants retain water very well, like Sedum, Portulaca, Purslane and other succulents. We’re used to the lush, moist climate of the Ohio valley and all the green, but we still can have dry summers and we’ve found dozens of perennials, shrubs and trees that can tolerate the occasional drought and still thrive.Ĭertain plants have qualities that help them survive drought better than others, once they are established. ![]() For people who live out West, it’s a way of life. Xeriscaping means landscaping that doesn’t need much water to look nice.
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