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Mike's
Short List of Some Especially Beautiful and Drought-Tolerant
Plants
Look
for these plants at your local garden centers, in books or find
them on the internet. Search for the botanical names and
you’ll usually find pictures and explanations. Look for the specific botanical name listed.
To find the best plants for you, take this list to the
garden center and describe the area you are planting with
pictures and dimensions. Work
on a design for yourself or find a good designer to help
organize a whole landscape.
J Have Fun! Mike
Botanical
Name and Cultivar
One
Common Name
Perennial
Flowers
Coreopsis
verticilatta 'Moonbeam'
Everblooming Coreopsis
Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
Purple Cone Flower
Hemerocallis cv. 'Stella D'Oro'
Gold Repeat Daylily
Liatris spicata spe.
Purple Gay Feather
Perovskia Atriplicifolia
Giant Purple Sage
Rudbecki fulgida Goldsturm
Black - Eyed Susan
Scabiosa caucasica'Butterfly Blue'
Repeat Bloom Scabiosa
Sedum spectabilis 'Autumn Joy'
Autumn Sedum
Ornamental
Grasses
Miscanthus
sinensis 'Gracillimus'
Maiden Grass
Pennesetum alopecuroides sp.
Fountain Grass
Carex morowii _Variegata_
Yellow Mounding Grass
Shrubs
Weigela
florida 'Variegata'
Variegated Pink Weigela
Ilex glabra 'Compacta'
Compact Native Inkbberry
Rhododendron 'PJM'
Potentilla fruticosa 'Jackmanii'
Yellow Potentilla
Rosa cv. 'Carefree Wonder'
Everblooming Dark Pink & White Rose
Spirea bumalda 'Anthony Waterer'
Anthony Waterer Spirea
iburnum plicatum var. tom. 'Maresii'
Improved Doublfile Viburnum
Ground
Covers
Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi 'Mass Hybrid'
Native Bearberry Groundcover
Juniperus conferta 'Blue Pacific'
Blue Shore Juniper
Microbiota decussata
Himalayan Microbiota
inca minor 'Bowles'
Extended Bloom Blue Myrtle
Trees
Cercis
canadensis sp.
Native Redbud Tree
Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan'
Japanese Flowering Cherry (Dbl.)
Quercus palustrus sp.
Native Pin Oak
©
Mike Walsh, Horticultural Concepts, Braintree, MA (781) 843-1400
Landscape Design and Project Management
mike@mike25.com
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