Prepared July 2002 by Felder Rushing

Smart gardeners choose beautiful but hardy garden plants which are well-suited for our typically hot, humid summer nights and do not require constant watering during summer drought. Here are a select few (there are others, but these enough for a start):

ANNUALS
Amaranth
Celosia
Copper Plant
Coreopsis
Cosmos
Dusty Miller
Gomphrena
Melampodium
Morning Glory
Moss Rose
Pentas
Periwinkle
Portulaca
Sunflower
Tithonia
Zinnia

PERENNIALS
Artemisias
Aspidistra
Asters
Canna
Daylily
Dianthus
Four O’Clocks
Gladiolus
Goldenrod
Iris
Lantana
Liatris
Liropie
Ornamental Grasses
Phlox
Purple Coneflower
Purple Heart (Setcreasea)
Rudbeckia
Salvias
Saporana
Sedums
Verbena
Yarrow (Achillea)

SHRUBS
Abelia
Boxwood
Cleyera
Cotoneaster
Flowering Quince
Eleagnus
Euonymous
Gardenia
Hollies
Junipers
Ligustrum
Nandina
Oleander
Euonymus
Photenia
Pyracantha
Indian Hawthorn
Santolina
Spirea
Sweet Olive