NATIVE PLANTS
Beautiful landscapes don’t have to have expansive lawns covering the entire property, or for that matter include any lawn at all.
Replace part of your lawn with low maintenance, drought tolerant native plants that are adapted to your climate and reduce your outdoor water use by up to 20-50%.
There are many varieties of low water use plants that can withstand dry summers, and that actually thrive in drier soil. Here are a few of them:
Trees
Amur Maple Acer ginnala 20’-25’
Austrian Pine Pinus nigra 50’
Japanese Black Pine Pinus thunbergii 6-10’
Cornelian Cherry Cornus Mas 20-25’
London Plane Platanus x acerifolia 50’
White Oak Quercus alba 50’
Shrubs
Broom Cytisus scoparius 5-6’
Flowering Quince Chaenomeles specoisa 6’-10’
Junipers Juniperus sp. 2’-9’
Cinquefoil Potentilla 3’-4’
Rose-of-Sharon Hibiscus syriacus Diana 6-8’
Winterberry Ilex verticillata 8-10’
Mugo Pine(dwarf) Pinus mugo 3-4
Ground Covers
Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 6-8”
Creeping Lilly-turf Liriope spicata 6-8”
Violets Viola sp.. 6-8”
Snow-in-Summer Cerastium tomentosum 6-8”
Perennials
New England Aster Aster Novae-angliae 15-30”
Common Blanketflower Gaillardia aristata 24-36”
Moonbeam Coreopsis verticillata 24-36”
Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea 24-36”
Lavender Lavendula ‘Hidcote Blue’ 12-36”
Sedum (Acre, Red Carpet, Ruby Glow, Stoliniferum, Spectabile) Sedum sp. 18-24”
Daylily Hemerocallis 18-48”
Yarrow, The Pearl, Summer Pastels Achillea sp. 18-36
Annuals
Cosmos Cosmos sp. 3’
Gazania Gazania 6-18”
Marigold Dimorpotheca sp. 4-6”
Portulaca Portulaca gradiflora 8”
Strawflower Heliochrysum bracteatum 3’
Sweet William Dianthus Barbatus 2’
