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The Hot Dry Sun garden takes advantage of the site conditions typical of new home construction. Nature provides a beautiful range of local native plants that thrive in the hot, dry sun. Fantastic candidates include White Wild Indigo, Trumpet Creeper, Beardtongue, False Sunflower, Spiderwort, Obedient Plant, Sumac, Eastern Red Cedar, and Bur Oak.
Interestingly, these tall plants conserve moisture by providing cool shade that results in a lush looking garden. Hot, dry sun garden native plants use deep sturdy root systems to break through hard soils to reach underground moisture sources. This generally makes for a long-lived garden that requires little supplemental moisture or maintenance.
The Hot Dry Sun Garden is on of the easiest to create. Any existing ground cover, usually grass, is weakened or removed and new plants installed anytime the ground is workable
Recommended Plants
| Herbaceous | Shrubs | Trees |
| Allium cernum | Comptonia peregrina | Carya ovate |
| Amorpha canescens | Myrica pennsylvanica | Castanea dentata |
| Andropogon virginicus | Rhus aromatica | Cercis canadensis |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Rhus glabra | Fraxinus pennsylvanica |
| Aster laevis | Rhus typhina | Juniperus virginiana |
| Baptisia alba | Viburnum dentatum | Prunus pennsylvanica |
| Campsis radicans | Quercus macrocarpa | |
| Ceanothus americanus | ||
| Chasmanthium latifolium | ||
| Coreopsis verticillata | ||
| Echinacea purpurea | ||
| Eupatorium hyssopifolium | ||
| Heliopsis helianthoides | ||
| Heterotheca villosa | ||
| Liatris spicata | ||
| Monadrda fistulosa | ||
| Oenothera fruticosa | ||
| Oligoneuron rigidum | ||
| Penstemon digitalis | ||
| Physostegia virginiana | ||
| Pycnanthemum muticum | ||
| Ratibita pinnata | ||
| Rudbeckia hirta | ||
| Silphium perfoliatum | ||
| Sporobolus heterolepsis | ||
| Symphy. oolentangiensis | ||
| Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | ||
| Tradescantia ohiensis |
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