Drought Resistant Shade Plants

A multitude of sturdy spikes filled with brilliant yellow pea-like blossoms are held above the rounded blue-green to gray-green rounded foliage. Baptisias resent being transplanted once established.

Dark sturdy spikes are covered by smokey purple pea-like blossoms with a darker purple eye in mid spring. Baptisias resent being transplanted once established and eventually develop an extensive taproot from which to regrow each spring.

Midnight Prairiebluestm creates an upright to vase-shaped plant that blooms for an extended period in spring. An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, long-lived, and easy.

An easy to grow tropical whose flowers are used to make the familiar Hawaiian leis. Excellent for containers. Checkout our new Plumeria Growing Guide for more detailed growing information.

Provide a well-drained soil and at least some sun for the best growth and flowering in a well-drained soil. Many sources suggest this is Dorotheanthus bellidiformis 'Mezoo' even though it is so similar to Aptenia .

An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, and easy. Considered a must for the cutflower garden as the spikes have an excellent vase life.

Baptisia's are durable, pest and disease resistant, long-lived perennials and could be considered the Lupine for the south. Purple Smoke is another NCBG Baptisia introduction. Images courtesy of AG 3, Inc.

Provide at least a half a day of direct sunlight and a well-drained soil. Excessive moisture and/or poor drainage seem to be the Hardy Ice Plant's only real downfall. Please plant responsibly as Delosperma is considered to be invasive in some regions,...

Dark sturdy spikes are covered by smokey purple pea-like blossoms with a darker purple eye in mid spring. Baptisias resent being transplanted once established and eventually develop an extensive taproot from which to regrow each spring.

Flowering begins and spring and often lasts until fall. Gauras are hardy and reliable drought tolerant native perennials. Gaura's drought tolerance makes it a suitable perennial for xeriscaping.

Provide at least a half a day of direct sunlight and a well-drained soil. Excessive moisture and/or poor drainage seem to be the Hardy Ice Plant's only real downfall. Please plant responsibly as Delosperma is considered to be invasive in some regions,...

Baptisia's are durable pest and disease resistant native taprooted perennials and could be considered the Lupine for the south. An excellent addition to the perennial border or cut-flower garden that is drought tolerant, deer resistant, durable, and easy.

Plant Bio: Jewels of Opar, Oregonlive.com, May 22, 2008,http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2008/05/plant_bio_jewels_of_opar.html"Ophir," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophir , accessed 7-22-2011http://foodplantsinternational.com/index.php?sec=plants&page=simple_info&plantid=16214&nocache="Tarzan...

Foliage may yellow in hot summers if soil is allowed to dry out. Features 1 1/4″ diameter, pink to lilac, saucer-shaped, upward facing, 5-petaled flowers in spring for a period of 6-7 weeks.

* This perennial blooms late in the season and makes a great transition along shady edges.

* This perennial blooms late in the season and makes a great transition along shady edges.

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. * Sun- and drought-tolerant.

Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. * Sun- and drought-tolerant.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

The foliage alone makes it worth growing as a specimen plant or use it as a bright spiller or thrilling groundcover beneath larger plants. Bright creamy white and bluish green variegated foliage adorn the trailing stems and act as a contrasting foil for...

A dainty and rhizomatous denizen of open and disturbed areas along stream banks and deciduous forests in the southeastern US. Broadleaf Barbara's Buttons produces clusters of white to light lavender flowers atop short stems in mid-spring.

This is considered by the experts to be the most popular cultivar in the US and deservedly so as Calypso has excellent vigor, exceptional cold hardiness, as well as flower power. There is apparently a good deal of confusion (admittedly we were confused...

The flowers are born in profusion during the warmer months of the year. This moderately vigorous vine received rave reviews during 2012 trials at The Trial Gardens at UGA as per Allan Armitage and Meg Green, click here for more from UGA .

This is a moisture and shade loving fern and it tolerates more sun where it has a consistently moist soil. Clusters of erect, green to blue-green fertile fronds that mature to a cinnamon brown add to the Royal Ferns mystique in late spring and summer.

It is perfect for moist shady gardens where its upright growing fronds are sure to be a stand out among surrounding perennials. A beautiful accent among darker foliaged perennials, or use it in mass, as a border, or even as a groundcover.