Wednesday, August 10, 2016

PLANTS FOR HOT, HUMID SUMMERS

If you missed last weeks Arboretum Tour, you missed hearing about these plants that thrive in our summer heat and humidity:

 
 

Photos by J. Kollar
 
Top l. to r.
From CPP area
1.  Cotinus coggygria (Smoketree)
2.  Jasminum nudiflorum (Winter Jasmine)
From Butterfly Garden
3.  Lantana camara 'Miss Huff'
4.  Coreposis verticillata 'Zagreb' (Threadleaf coreopsis)
5.  Ilex vomitoria 'Nana' (Dwarf Yaupon Holly)
 
Bottom l. to r.
From Perennial Garden
6.  Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage)
7.  Amsonia hubrichtii (Hubricht's Bluestar)
8.  Panicum virgatum (Native Switch Grass)
From Wildflower Garden
9.  Salvia farinacea (Mealycup Sage)
10. Gaura lindheimeri

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