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Plants for Moist Soil
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For some CNY gardeners, difficult areas of overly moist soil are problematic. Heavy spring rains combined with melting snow can make these areas a nightmare to landscape. To combat this gardening challenge we have compiled a list of plants that tolerate moist areas and thrive with wet roots. Some plants, like the Weeping Willow for example, are beneficial to such areas as they tend to be thirsty plants that will aid in drying up overly moist areas – that is why Willows are seen so often on creek-sides and lakefronts.
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| Trees Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) River Birch (Betula nigra) Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthaos) White Swamp Oak (Quercus bicolor) Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) Willows, most (Salix spp.) Shrubs Bog Rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) Brilliant Aronia (Aronia arbutifolia) Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles spp.) Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa) Dw. Shrub Dogwood (Cornus sericea) Slender Deutzia (Deutzia gracilis) Witch Hazel (Hamamelis spp.) Sparkle/Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) Pear (Pyrus sp.) Willows, most (Salix spp.) Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) Coral/Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) Blueberry (Vaccinium sp.) Viburnum, most (Viburnum spp. |
Perennials Monkshood (Aconitum sp.) Snow-on-the-Mtn. (Aegopodium podagra) Carpet Bugle (Ajuga sp.) Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema sp.) Goat’s Beard (Aruncus sp.) Astilbe (Astilbe spp.) Bergenia (Bergenia cordifolia) Turtlehead (Chelone oblique) Black Snakeroot (Cimicifuga racemosa) Bleeding Heart (Dicentra speciabilis) Wintercreeper (Euonymous fortunei) Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea) Meadowsweet (Filipendula sp.) Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum) Feather Reed Grass (Calamagrostis sp.) Ribbon Grass (Glyceria aquatilis) Jap. Blood Grass (Grass Imperata cylindrical) Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) Mints (Mentha sp.) Japaneses Silver Grass (Miscanthus spp.) Dw. Fountain Grass (Pennisetum aolpec.) Short Variegated Grass (Phalaris arundinacea) Daylilies (Hemerocallis spp.) Hosta (Hosta spp.) Chameleon (Huttuynia cordata) Japanese Iris (Iris kaempferi) Variegated Iris (Iris pallida) Siberian Iris (Iris sibirica) Senecio/ Rocket (Ligularia spp.) Gooseneck Loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroide) Loosestrife (Lythrum spp.) Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) Forget – Me – Not (Myosotis sp.) Rodger’s Flower (Rodgersia sp.) Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) Creeping Myrtle (Vinca minor) |
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