High-impact, Low-care
These easy-to-grow plants provide low-maintenance beauty and help conserve resources. The list is inspired by the Tracy DiSabato-Aust book, "High-impact, Low-care Garden Plants: Tough but Beautiful Plants that Anyone Can Grow"
Annuals (8)
Butterfly Attracting (81)
Creative Containers (52)
Drought-Defiant (87)
Midwest Native (84)
Salt-Tolerant Plants (26)
Shade-tolerant (54)
Trees & Shrubs (74)
Calamagrostis brachytricha
Common Name: Korean Feather-reed Grass
Korean Feather-reed Grass is a clump-forming, warm season grass with bright green leaves. Pink-tinted late summer blooms fade to cream in fall and finish a straw color in winter. A graceful addition to the shade or part shade garden! One of the few f...
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Callicarpa dichotoma
Common Name: Purple Beautyberry
Purple Beautyberry is grown for its rows of bright fuschia fruit. The small, deciduous shrub is native to China, Korea, and Japan. Its long, arching branches often touch the ground, giving it an elegant shape. The small pink flowers in summer are fol...
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Carex elata 'Aurea'
Common Name: Bowles Golden Sedge
Bowles' Golden Sedge has vivid foliage that adds bright color to the sunny or part shade garden. The yellow seems to glow in partial shade. Use this dramatic clump of foliage near water or in shallow water, or in another moist location....
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Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'
Common Name:
Ice Dance' has strap-like leaves striped with a clean white edge. 'Ice Dance' is evergreen and adds a sense of permanence to the winter shade garden....
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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Common Name: Hardy Plumbago
Hardy Plumbago is an outstanding, long-lived groundcover that slowly weaves itself into the garden fabric, creating large drifts of fall color. The deep blue flowers are numerous and long lasting beginning in early fall. As the flowering finishes, th...
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