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 |
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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 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' |
Information presented within the Lawn & Landscape Irrigation section of this Water Web site has been reviewed by University of Nebraska - Lincoln Educator John Fech.
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