Common Natives
Some of the plants you have grown for years are native plants and you just didn’t know it. Things like Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus) is native from Virginia to Florida, Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) is native as is the American holly and the Savannah holly. Redbuds and dogwoods, and oakleaf hydrangeas all have their roots here. Natives aren’t just unruly weeds.
While some purists believe that you should uproot all non-natives or exotics, there is room for both. If you have an existing landscape, try adding to it some native plants--from perennials to trees. If you are starting from scratch, you may want to incorporate more, simply to cut back on the maintenance.
Native Vines
While we aren’t going to list every native plant available, here are some that should be locally available and would be good to start out with. For vines there is the trumpet creeper--Campsis radicans, with bright orange to red flowers in full sun. It does best where it has poorer soil, tending to grow vegetatively in rich soil. A kissing cousin is Cross vine, Bignonia capreolata, with dark red tubular flowers which are yellow throated. It grows statewide. Then look at the honeysuckles. We don’t want the invasive Japanese honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica--which isn’t native anyway; but there are some wonderful trumpet honeysuckles from Lonicera sempervirens, which comes in shades of red and orange and a rare yellow. Then there is the standard Virginia creeper, a plant commonly mistaken for poison ivy,. Virginia creeper grows well in shade to partial sun and has one of the prettiest fall colors of any vine other than poison ivy, which most of us don’t want. For shadier gardens, you can plant a harder to find vine in the climbing magnolia-Schisandra glabra, or there is the climbing hydrangea, Hydrangea anomala, a deciduous vine with flat white flower clusters, and a wonderful peeling cinnamon bark.
Common Natives
Some of the plants you have grown for years are native plants and you just didn’t know it. Things like Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus) is native from Virginia to Florida, Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) is native as is the American holly and the Savannah holly. Redbuds and dogwoods, and oakleaf hydrangeas all have their roots here. Natives aren’t just unruly weeds.
While some purists believe that you should uproot all non-natives or exotics, there is room for both. If you have an existing landscape, try adding to it some native plants--from perennials to trees. If you are starting from scratch, you may want to incorporate more, simply to cut back on the maintenance.
Native Vines
While we aren’t going to list every native plant available, here are some that should be locally available and would be good to start out with. For vines there is the trumpet creeper--Campsis radicans, with bright orange to red flowers in full sun. It does best where it has poorer soil, tending to grow vegetatively in rich soil. A kissing cousin is Cross vine, Bignonia capreolata, with dark red tubular flowers which are yellow throated. It grows statewide. Then look at the honeysuckles. We don’t want the invasive Japanese honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica--which isn’t native anyway; but there are some wonderful trumpet honeysuckles from Lonicera sempervirens, which comes in shades of red and orange and a rare yellow. Then there is the standard Virginia creeper, a plant commonly mistaken for poison ivy,. Virginia creeper grows well in shade to partial sun and has one of the prettiest fall colors of any vine other than poison ivy, which most of us don’t want. For shadier gardens, you can plant a harder to find vine in the climbing magnolia-Schisandra glabra, or there is the climbing hydrangea, Hydrangea anomala, a deciduous vine with flat white flower clusters, and a wonderful peeling cinnamon bark.
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