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)

Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Ogon'

Common Name: Ogon Dawn Redwood

Ogon Dawn Redwood is a spectacular deciduous conifer with golden foliage. Foliage offers orange fall color. Also called 'Gold Rush' Redwood....

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Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus 'Cosmopolitan'

Common Name: Cosmopolitan Miscanthus

Cosmopolitan Miscanthus is a vigorous ornamental grass with broad, weeping leaves and feathery, beige, flower clusters. This graceful clumping grass stands out as a focal point in a border....

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Molinia caerulea subsp. Arundinacea 'Skyracer'

Common Name: Skyracer Tall Purple Moor Grass

Skyracer is a tufted, compact perennial grass with dense clumps of slender, foot-long green leaves marked with stripes of creamy yellow. In summer, slim, pale yellow flower stalks rise three feet above foliage in an arching pattern. Each inflorescenc...

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