Landscape Plants for Wet Sites
The Home School Community 4-H Club with the assistance of Pitt County
Cooperative Extension Horticulture Program, Master Gardener Volunteers
and Pitt County Buildings and Grounds designed and installed this
garden that tolerates wet sites. These youth learned how to identify
plants, prepare planting beds, mulch and plants.
The Home School Community 4-H Club
Danny Lauderdale, Extension Agent
Ellie Sullivan, Master Gardener
Scenes from Planting Day
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The plants that were selected for this site are listed below.
Click on the scientific name for a detailed plant fact sheet.
- Callicarpa americana
- American beautyberry
3 to 6 ft. tall deciduous shrub, light lavender-pink flowers June to
August, purple fruit in the fall, partial shade.
- Calycanthus floridus
- Sweetshrub
6 ft. tall deciduous shrub, maroon flowers in May, partial shade to
shade.
- Canna - 'Black Knight'
4-5 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, mahogany leaves with green
highlights and scarlet flowers in summer, sun to partial shade.
- Canna - 'Cleopatra'
4 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, burgundy and green leaves, red and
yellow flowers, sun to partial shade.
- Canna - 'Minerva'
6 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, green and white striped leaves and
yellow flowers, sun to partial shade.
- Eupatorium maculatum
- 'Gateway' - Joe Pye Weed
5 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, textured leaves, rosy-mauve flowers,
sun to partial shade.
- Hedychium - 'Dr. Moy' -
Ginger Lily
6 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, white striped foliage, peach autumn
fragrant flowers, partial shade.
- Hibiscus moschuetos - Rose Mallow
3 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, large leaves, white, rose or pink
flowers, full sun to partial shade.
- Ilex glabra - Inkberry
6 ft. tall evergreen shrub, small leaves, full sun to partial shade.
- Ilex verticillata
- 'Apollo' - Winterberry
Male pollinator, 6 ft. tall deciduous shrub, full sun to partial shade.
- Ilex verticillata
- 'Sparkleberry' - Winterberry
6 ft. tall deciduous shrub, bright red berries September through March,
full sun to partial shade.
- Iris ensata -
'Variegata' - Variegated Japanese Iris
30 inch tall herbaceous perennial, white and green leaves, purple
flowers, full sun to partial shade.
- Itea virginica -
Virginia sweetspire
4 ft. tall deciduous shrub, crimson fall color, white flowers in May -
June, full sun to partial shade.
- Lobelia cardinalis
- Cardinal flower
3 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, red flowers in August that attract
hummingbirds, partial shade.
- Musa - 'Basjoo' - Hardy Japanese Banana
Big, supposedly 18 ft. tall, we will see, tropical foliage, sun to
partial shade.
- Tradescantia pallida - 'Purple Heart' -
Purple Hearts
6 inch tall ground-cover herbaceous perennial, purple leaves, sun to
partial shade.
- Vernonia noveboracensis
- New York ironweed
6 ft. tall herbaceous perennial, rose or purple flowers in fall, full
sun to partial shade.
- Viburnum nudum -
Smooth viburnum
6 ft. tall deciduous shrub, red to purple fall color, pink to lavender
flowers, sun to partial shade.
If you have questions or need additional information
concerning this plant list please email: Danny
Lauderdale or call him at (252) 902-1701.
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Last updated: April 10, 2007
