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2. Zonal-denial!

3. What do you have?
 Sun
 Soil/Drainage
Zone/Exposure

4. Drainage problems can sometimes be solved
by building a berm and lifting the roots above
the excess moisture. Do Not build Mt. Fruiticus,
the volcano is not the answer unless your tree
is, well, a sacrifice.

5. Right Plant Right Place
Landscape “Lifestyle”

8. Native Plant Selections
PurpleConeflower Pale Purple Coneflower
(Echinacea purpurea) (Echinacea pallida)
Eastern Beebalm Butterfly Milkweed
(Monarda fistulosa) (Asclepias tuberosa)

9. DroughtTolerant Perennials
Veronica ‘Giles van Hees’ Bee Balm ‘Jacob Cline’
Sea Holly ‘Jade Frost’ Coreopsis ‘Mercury Rising’

10. Hydrangea Endless Summer
‘Twist & Shout’

11. Oakleaf Hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia

12. Oakleaf Hydrangea
‘Sike’s Dwarf’

13. Spirea ‘Ogon’

14. Weigela ‘My Monet’

15. Ninebark ‘Lady in Red’

16. ‘Amber Jubilee’ ‘Center Glow’

17. ‘Candy Lights’
‘Golden Lights’
‘Lemon Lights’
Azalea
Northern Lights Series

18. ‘PJM’
‘PJM Compacta’
Rhododendron

19. Seven-Sons Flower
Heptacodium miconoides

20. Ginkgo biloba

21. ‘Todd’s Broom’ ‘Fastigiata’

22. Ginkgo ‘Jade Butterfly’
Ginkgo biloba

23. Kentucky CoffeeTree

24. ‘Espresso’ ‘Stately Manor’

25. Picea omorika ‘Bruns Pendula’

26. ‘Aurea’ ‘Blue Sky’

27. Taxodium distichum ‘Shawnee Brave’

28. ‘Peve Minaret’

29. PlantsThat Don’t Work
 Not Hardy
 Don’t have their needs met, they can be needy
 WRONG PLANT/ WRONG PLACE/ WRONG SPACE
 Live a good “Landscape Lifestyle”
 Have FUN! And get your hands dirty!