The space between the sidewalk and street gets exposed to just about everything: heat, shade, salt, snow, traffic, pedestrians, pets, utilities and compacted soil. But that doesn't mean it has to be boring—or even difficult. Hanna and Sarah talk through ways to design these challenging spaces around how people actually use them, and share some of their favorite tough plants.
Plants mentioned
- Blue calamint — Calamintha spp.
- Blue grama — Bouteloua gracilis
- Bleeding heart — Lamprocapnos spectabilis
- Buckley oak — Quercus buckleyi
- Callirhoe / poppy mallow — Callirhoe spp.
- Creeping phlox / moss phlox — Phlox subulata
- Creeping thyme — Thymus serpyllum
- Coreopsis — Coreopsis spp.
- Cosmos — Cosmos spp.
- Dwarf bee balm / bee balm — Monarda spp.
- Goldenrod — Solidago spp.
- Hardy geranium — Geranium spp.
- Helenium — Helenium spp.
- Jack Frost brunnera — Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost'
- Lily of the valley — Convallaria majalis
- Little bluestem — Schizachyrium scoparium
- Marigold — Tagetes spp.
- Missouri evening primrose — Oenothera macrocarpa
- Pasque flower — Pulsatilla patens
- Sedges — Carex spp.
- Side-oats grama — Bouteloua curtipendula
- Stonecrop / sedum — Sedum spp.
- Yarrow — Achillea millefolium
Specific plants and cultivars discussed in more detail
- Millennium allium — Allium 'Millenium'
- Oak sedge — Carex albicans
- Salvia / blue sage — Salvia azurea
- Snow flurry aster — Symphyotrichum pilosum
- Yarrow 'Moonshine' — Achillea 'Moonshine'
- Yarrow 'Paprika' — Achillea 'Paprika'
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