Wet soggy area in your yard? Wet soil can mean the death of many landscape plants — due not only to excess water but also to lack of oxygen. Plants that cant tolerate such conditions usually die of suffocation. Improving drainage in the area is always a plus; consider installing a French drain, a wet-weather bed or raised beds. If none of those possibilities, choose plants that handle varying degrees of wetness. If you have an area in your landscape thats occasionally wet but dries reasonably well in a few days, you might consider these perennials, shrubs and trees: astilbe, cardinal flower, sedge, rose mallow, summersweet, hibiscus, European cranberrybush viburnum, leucothoe, fothergilla, inkberry, sweetspire, sweet and swamp azaleas, white spruce and black gum.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:00:09 +0000