Once good soils are in place, create water zones. Water zones are distinct sections of your property which contain plants with similar water needs. Group ornamentals into H-M-L zones in the landscape. Keep each distinct plant group by themselves – set watering minutes per zone accordingly.

High

Need regular weekly or biweekly watering

• Hybrid tea roses
• Acorus (Sweet Flag)
• Cephalanthus (Button)
• Boxwood
• Flag Iris
• Salix (Willow)
• Arborvitae
• Carex (Sedge)
• Helenium (Helen's Flower)
• Ferns
• Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium)
• Lobelia

Mod

Plants that grow well with 25 inches of normal rainfall

• Shrub roses
• Chelone (Pink Turtlehead)
• Japanese Anemone
• Blue Holly
• Oregon Grapeholly
• Ajuga (bugleweed)
• Fothergilla
• Penstemon
• Plumbago
• Coral Bells
• Astilbe
• Siberian Iris
• Monkshood
• Allium (ornamental onion)
• Amsonia
• Aquilegia (Columbine)
• Blackberry Lily
• Butterfly Milkweed
• Campanula
• Cranesbill (Geranium)
• Lilies
• Pladycodon (Balloon Flower)
• Phlox
• Veronica
• Woods Pink Aster, Purple, Blue and Purpledome Aster

Lo

Plants that grow well with no supplemental rainfall

• Russian Sage
• Yarrow
• Coneflower
• Rudbeckia
• Echinacea
• Daylily
• Prairie Dropseed
• Indiangrass
• Big Bluestem
• Little Bluestem
• Blue Grama
• most Viburnums
• Ninebark
• Aronia (Chokeberry)
• Autumn Fire Sedum
• Maidengrass
• Salvia 'May Night'
• Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
• Catmint – 'Walkers Low,' 'Joanna Reed', 'Little Titch', 'Six Hills Giant'