Newspaper Article

Xeric Plants Found Thriving in Midwest

A Garden Journal Donna Redman For the Journal

2002

Overview

Salvias, both red and blue, grew there, as did the gray-green artemisias. Echinacea (purple coneflower) grew well. Stella D'Oro daylilies were used generously in street medians, and they looked great tidy, low growing thickets with bright yellow flowers. All of these plants seem to be quite flexible about their needs, adapting to whatever growing conditions they can get. Queen Anne's lace and golden rod grew beside the roads and in meadows with green grass. The usual flowers you see planted wherever you go petunias, impatiens, begonias, alyssum, geraniums grew in planters and in flower beds with no sign of stress. We planted a desert four o'clock as a ground cover in one corner of the front yard. It was lovely the first couple of years, then it died. Ah, but it wasn't gone. Several desert four o'clock plants popped up in the back yard, probably seeded there when birds feasted on seed from the original plant.

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