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Plant Tough Shrubs for a Handsome, Drought Tolerant Landscape
Design a garden featuring drought resistant plants to cut landscape maintenance and watering. Plant shrubs alone or mix them with flowering perennials.
To design a landscape that remains attractive even during dry weather, consider planting drought tolerant shrubs throughout your yard. Use them as foundation plants, in shrub borders, and even in mixed borders combined with drought-tolerant perennials. In addition to remaining attractive despite summer heat and drought, a water wise landscape also saves time and money spent on watering—and that’s a good thing!
Shrubs for Dry Soil
Full sun and average soil that ranges from moist and well-drained to dry is all the shrubs listed here require.
Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius). …………………………
Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa). ………………………………..
Juniper (Juniperus spp.). ……………………………….
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Northern bayberry (Myrica pennsylvanica). ……………………………
Sumacs (Rhus spp.) ………………………….
Sweet fern (Comptonia peregrina). …………………………….
Secrets for Successful Shrub Plantings
Encourage your shrubs to thrive by giving them extra TLC at planting time and for at least the first year they are in the ground. Once you get your drought tolerant plantings established, you’ll find that they can be as handsome as thirsty ones, plus they’ll require far less time hauling hoses to look their best.
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