Garden Obstacles: Sunny and Dry

Updated: Jan 25

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 pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower 🦌🐇

Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower

Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattlesnake Master 🦌

Geum triflorum - Prairie Smoke 🦌🐇

Liatris scariosa var. novae-angliae - New England Blazing Star 🦌

Liatris spicata - Blazing Star 🦌

Monarda bradburiana - Eastern Bee Balm 🦌🐇

Monarda punctata - Spotted Horsemint 🦌🐇

Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum - Stiff Goldenrod

Optuntia humifusa - Prickly Pear 🦌

Penstemon hirsutus - Hairy Beardtongue 🦌🐇

Phlox subulata 'Emerald Cushion Blue' - Creeping Phlox 🦌

Phlox subulata 'Fort Hill' - Creeping Phlox 🦌

Phlox subulata 'Snowflake' - Creeping Phlox 🦌

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Threadleaf Mountain Mint 🐇

Ratibida pinnata - Gray Coneflower 🐇

Solidago flexicaulis - Zig Zag Goldenrod 🦌

Solidago speciosa - Showy Goldenrod


Sedges:

Carex appalachica - Appalachian Sedge 🦌

Carex bicknellii - Bicknell's Sedge 🦌

Carex texensis - Texas Sedge 🦌


Shrubs:

Amelanchier laevis - Allegheny Serviceberry

Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi - Bearberry

Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi 'Massachusetts' - Bearberry Cultivar

Ceanothus americanus - New Jersey Tea

Comptonia peregrina - Sweet Fern 🦌🐇

Diervilla lonicera - Bush Honeysuckle

Myrica pensylvanica - Bayberry

Potentilla fruticosa - Cinquefoil Cultivars 🦌

Prunus maritima - Beach Plum 🦌

Rhus aromatica 'Gro-Low' - Fragrant Sumac Cultivar 🐇

Rhus copallinum - Winged Sumac

Rosa carolina - Pasture Rose


Trees:

Celtis occidentalis - Common Hackberry

Juniperus virginiana - Eastern Red Cedar 🦌

Prunus virginiana - Chokecherry


Vines:

Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Virginia Creeper


Top Row: Spotted Horsemint, Zig Zag Goldenrod, Threadleaf Mountain Mint

Second Row: Bush Honeysuckle, Sweet Fern, Nodding Onion

Third Row: Winged Sumac, 'Snow Flurry' Heath Aster, Wild Bergamot

Bottom Row: Rattlesnake Master, 'Raydon's Favorite' Aromatic Aster, Gray Coneflower

photos: KMS Native Plants LLC


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