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)
Panicum virgatum 'Rehbraun'
Common Name: Rehbraun Switchgrass
Selected for its rich red leaf coloring from mid-summer into fall, 'Rehbraun' Switchgrass grows well in full sun and average soil....
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Paonia obovata
Common Name: Woodland Peony
Woodland Peony has spectacular white flowers with purple filaments. In spring, purple divided leaves push through the soil, rapidly unfurling and turning green. The bloom colors vary, and range from white or light pink to magenta and red. ...
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Papaver orientale 'Raspberry Queen'
Common Name: Oriental Poppy
'Raspberry Queen' is a fine selection out of the most outstanding new hybrid Oriental Poppy varieties. The show-stopping flowers are huge and brightly colored with velvety fringed and frilled petals. They are fully double with bold markings and desig...
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Picea bicolor 'Howell's Dwarf Tigertail'
Common Name: Howell's Dwarf Tigertail Spruce
'Howell's Dwarf Tigertail' is the most colorful of all bicolors. Needles are bright silver-blue on the undersides and green on top. It is an attractive, hardy dwarf conifer that forms a mound. Shape easily maintained by pruning upward growing shoots....
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Pinus densiflora 'Oculis-draconis'
Common Name: Dragon's Eye Pine
Dragon's Eye Pine is a cultivar of the Japanese Red Pine. The common name results from the two yellow bands that mark the otherwise green needles. This banding is said to give the illusion of a dragon's eye when you look at it closely. The yellow ban...
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Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum'
Common Name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
Variegated Solomon’s Seal is a graceful shade plant. The handsome foliage features narrow, pure white streaks along the margins of the leaves. Leaves appear on arched burgundy stems and turn a brilliant golden hue in fall. Fragrant, bell-shaped white...
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