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really flooded sometimes and dry as dust other timed. Pretty tough conditions and miserable if you try to grow lawn, but just the thing for many beautiful native plants, trees and shrubs.
As long as your weeter isn’t causing damage to the foundation or other structures, it can become a new landscape feature.
Take a lesson from nature. In catalogs and nurseries, you’ll see plants described as #”likes wet feet.” Bingo.
Such plants are naturally adapted to areas that are occasionally flooded. You must know the difference between two terms: obligate and facultative.
Obligate wetlands plants are obliged to be in water. Plants like water lilies are obligate and not suitable.
Facultative plants are more tolerant. Also called moisture-tolerant, these are the tough guys. They can take living right in your weeter, then keep going all through the dry season and do it again next year.
Joe pye is facultative. So are red maples, Witch hazels and blue flag iris. In fact, you’ll find many native Virginia plants to be in this dish-it-outI-can-take-it category.
There is even a native azalea (Rhododendron viscosum) that has fragrant white flowers in July and feeds many butterflies. Give it a little shade
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