Garden Obstacles: Sunny and Dry Gardens

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