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)

High-impact, Low-care (40)

Midwest Native (84)

Ornamental Grass and Grass-like Plants (38)

Rain Gardens and Bioswales (60)

Salt-Tolerant Plants (26)

Shade-tolerant (54)

Summer Color for Sunny Sites (65)

Trees & Shrubs (74)

Vines and Groundcovers (51)

Wetlands and Streambank Stabilization (48)

Fagus sylvatica

Common Name: Tricolor Beech

Tricolor Beech is a slow growing with a spreading habit and elliptical, wavy-edged leaves. Tricolor Beech has purple leaves marked with white and pink. Foliage burns in hot sun or dry winds. This tree's bark is smooth and silvery....

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Geranium 'Rozanne'

Common Name: Rozanne Hardy Geranium

Rozanne Hardy Geranium is the longest blooming and most prolific blue-flowered geranium. The flowers continue blooming through the heat of midsummer, and the deeply cut leaves remain lovely, on plants that are spreading but not sprawling....

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