We know our listeners enjoy learning about plants they should consider or try each year and we like to make those lists based on a theme. We've done pollinator habitat, we've done other wildlife, we've done shrubs, etc. This year we're going through our team (at the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum and Nebraska Forest Service) and sharing everyone's signature, or favorite plants.
Anyone who regularly designs landscapes, helps people select plants, or influences what is planted in public spaces eventually ends up with a toolbox of their favorite species. These are our tried and true, dependable problem solving plants- or just our favorites to see growing.
Trees:
- Hackberry
- Oaks
- bur
- Gambel
- chinkapin (dwarf & regular)
- black
- Elm
- Kentucky Coffee Tree
- Catalpa
- Persimmon
- Paw Paw
- Sycamore
Shrubs:
- Aronia
- Witchhazel
- Pawnee Buttes Sandcherry
- Iroquois Beauty Chokeberry
- Cornelian Cherry Dogwood
- Viburnum
- Gro-Low Sumac
- Muskingum Gray Dogwood
Plants:
- Leadplant
- Amsonia
- Agastache rupestris
- Liatris
- mountain mint
- betony
- swamp milkweed
- coreopsis
- goldenrod (Wichita Mnts., Fireworks, Missouri, Sweet)
- Zizia
- Culver's root
- Dwarf Blue Indigo
- Yarrow (Moonshine, Coronation Gold)
- Catmint
- Sedges (all of them!)
- Prairie Dropseed
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