Plants for Dry Soil Conditions

Planting in dry soil? This handy list will give you our best bets on which plants will fare the best under these conditions.

• Acer (Maple)
• Achillea (Yarrow)
• Aegopodium (Bishop's Weed)
• Anthemis (Golden Marguerite)
• Arabis (Rockcress)
• Arctostaphylos (Bearberry)
• Armeria (Sea Thrift)
• Aronia (Chokeberry)
• Artemisia
• Asclepias (Butterflyweed)
• Aster
• Aurinia (Basket of Gold)
• Baptisia (False Blue Indigo)
• Bergenia (Pig Squeak)
• Boltonia (False Starwort)
• Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)
• Calluna (Heather)
• Centaurea (Cornflower)
• Cerastium (Snow in Summer)
• Chaenomeles (Quince)
• Coreopsis (Tickseed)
• Cotinus (Smokebush)
• Crataegus (Hawthorne)
• Cytisus (Broom)
• Dianthus (Pinks)
• Echinacea (Purple Coneflower)
• Echinops (Globe Thistle)
• Eryngium (Sea Holly)
• Euonymus (Burning Bush)
• Euphorbia (Spurge)
• Fraxinus (Ash)
• Gaillardia (Blanket Flowers)
• Geranium (Cranesbill)
• Hamamelis (Witch Hazel)
• Juniperus (Juniper)
• Kolkwitzia (Beauty Bush)
• Lavandula (Lavender)
• Limonium (Sea Lavender)
• Lychnis (Campion)
• Macleaya (Plume Poppy)
• Malus (Flowering Crabapple, Apple)
• Malva (Mallow)
• Myrica (Northern Bayberry)
• Nepeta (Catmint)
• Oenothera (Evening Primrose)
• Papaver (Poppy)
• Penstemon (Beard Tongue)
• Perovskia (Russian Sage)
• Philadelphus (Mock Orange)
• Picea (Spruce)
• Pinus (Pine)
• Potentilla (Cinquefoil)
• Prunus (Cherry, Plum, Almond)
• Rhus (Sumac)
• Rosa (Rose)
• Salvia (Meadow Sage)
• Sempervivum (Hens and Chicks)
• Spiraea (Spirea)
• Stachys (Lamb's Ears)
• Thymus (Thyme)
• Vaccinium (Blueberry, Cranberry)
• Weigela