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Garden Obstacles: Sunny and Dry

Updated: Jan 25, 2022

Oh, where to begin with this one! Full sun is six or more hours of direct sunlight. Many of our native plants prefer this condition. This is just a small list to get you started. As always, deer and rabbit resistant is not a guarantee that they will not browse it.


Bulbs:

Allium cernuum - Nodding Onion 🦌🐇


Edibles:

Fragaria virginiana - Wild Strawberry

Fragaria virginiana 'Intensity' - Wild Strawberry

Fragaria virginiana 'Port Huron' - Wild Strawberry

Gaylussacia baccata - Black Huckleberry

Monarda fistulosa - Wild Bergamot 🦌

Vaccinium angustifolium - Lowbush Blueberry


Grasses:

Andropogon gerardii - Big Bluestem 🦌

Andropogon virginicus - Broomsedge 🦌

Eragrostis spectabilis - Purple Love Grass 🦌

Panicum virgatum - Switchgrass 🦌

Schizachyrium scoparium - Little Bluestem 🦌

Sorghastrum nutans - Indian Grass 🦌

Sporobolus heterolepsis - Prairie Dropseed 🦌


Perennials:

Achillea millefolium - Common Yarrow 🦌

Baptisia tinctoria - Wild Indigo 🦌🐇

Asclepias syriaca - Common Milkweed 🦌

Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed 🦌🐇

Aster ericoides - Heath Aster 🦌🐇

Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' - Heath Aster Cultivar 🦌🐇

Aster oblongifolius - Aromatic Aster 🦌🐇

Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies' - Aromatic Aster Cultivar🦌🐇

Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite' - Aromatic Aster Cultivar 🦌🐇

Callirhoe involucrata - Poppy Mallow

Chrysopsis mariana - Maryland Aster 🦌

Echinacea pal