Plants for Wet Locations

What Causes Wet Dirt

​Wet areas in a yard can come from several days of rain or winter weather that brings snow that melts and the water does not have any place to go because the soil is still frozen.  Maybe this is something that just started to show up.  Well then you probably need to check where your gutters are emptying or did you create a damn by building a raised landscape bed.  Whatever your reason, keep in mind that the plants listed below are for areas that dry reasonably well in a few days.

​Perennials

​Jue-Pye Weed
Big Blue Liriope
Stella D'oro Daylilly
Gardenview Scarlet Bee Balm
Japanese Bloodgrass
Morning Light Grass
Heavy Metal Grass
Dwarf Fountain Grass
Summer Showers Goldenrod
Astible
Turtlehead
Geranium sanguineum
Hosta
Cardinal Flower
Walkers Low Catmint
Jacob’s Ladder

Fanal Astilbe

Shrubs

​Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
Slender Deutzia
Hummingbird Summersweet Bush
Sixteen Candles Summersweet Bush
Ruby Spice Summersweet Bush
Aronia Red Chokeberry
Aronia Black Chokeberry
Red Twig Dogwood
Variegated Red Twig Dogwood
Witchhazel
Henry's Garnet Sweetspire
Shamrock Inkberry
Harkuro Nishiki Willow
Dwarf Cranberry Bush Viburnum
Winter Red Winterberry 
Arborvitae
 

Slender Duetzia

​Trees

Red Maple
Serviceberry
Honey Locust
Sweetbay Magnolia
Swamp White Oak
River Birch

Serviceberry Tree

Serviceberry Tree