Native Plants for your

Garden in

Keowee Key

Alice Fleming Guzick

34 Skipper Lane

Autumn 2016

Why choose native species

• Attract pollinators, including

butterflies, bumblebees,

honeybees, dragon flies, birds

• Produce more nectar and pollen

than modern hybrids

• Easy to grow! (minimal watering

after established, 1-2 years)

• Resist mold, mildew, insect pests

• No need for harmful, dangerous

chemicals or pesticides

Large trees that you might have

• We live in an Oak-Hickory Forest!

• Southern Red Oak

• Black Oak; White Oak

• Hickory (Carya; Mockernut)

• Pine (Virginia)

• Maple (Silver, various)

• American Beech

• Sweetgum

• River Birch

Medium Trees to plant

• Southern

Magnolia(Magnolia grandiflora)

• Eastern

Redcedar(Juniperus virginiana)

Good alternative to Leyland

cypress

• Hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)

Endagered; to try…on

north-facing rocky slope

Smaller Trees

• Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)

• Dogwood (Cornus florida is deer resistant)

• Eastern Redbud

• Pawpaw (Asimina triloba, for fruit and for

Zebra swallowtails)

• Fruit trees (also for pollinators)

• recommended are Pin Cherry and American

Plum; Black Cherry is a messy tree

• Spice bush (Lindera benzoin, attracts

butterflies and is deer resistant)

Dogwood and Sourwood Trees

Bushes

• Azalea

• Rhododendron

• Mountain Laurel (Kalmia)

• Serviceberry (Amelanchier)

• Elderberry (American)

• Clethra (Mountain or Sweet pepperbush)

• St. John’s Wort (Hypericum Prolificum)

• Spirea• Fetterbush (Lyonia lucida, hummingbirds, wet soil)

• American Beautyberry (large, winter interest)

Oconee Azalea (Rhododendron Flammeum)

Deer Resistant shrubs

• Deer tend not to like shrub

foliage that is sticky, hairy,

feathery, or emits an odor

that is not appealing. Deer

also tend to develop

regional tastes for shrubs.

• Shrubs that are native to an

area may not be preferred

or may be ignored by deer

because they did not

develop a taste for that

shrub species. However, a

hungry deer can very

quickly acquire a taste for a

shrub that seemed

resistant in the past.

• Serviceberry (white-purple)

• Viburnum

• Spirea (+butterflies)

• Potentilla

• Ellen Huff Oakleaf Hydrangea?

• Forsythia

• Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)

• Juniper

• Wax myrtle

• Holly

• Mountain Laurel (Kalmia)

• Clethra• From naturehills.com

• With search parameters:

• Zone 7 or 8a(!)

• Native Plants

• Bushes and Shrubs

• Deer Resistant

Mountain Laurel (Kalmia)

Deer Resistant more bushes/flowers

• Mountain Laurel

• Clethra

• Longflower

Alumroot (Heuchera)

• Joe Pye Weed

• Ice Plant(Delosperma)

• Hibiscus

• Sunflower

• Iris

• Liatris spicata

Kobold

• Coreopsis

verticillata, etc.

• Yarrow

• Hyssop

• Eastern Bluestar

• Snowdrop

Anemone

• Wild red

columbine

• Aster

• Baptisia (False Indigo)

Clethra Alnifolia (Sweet Pepperbush)

Flowers for lakeside buffers

• Swamp Milkweed (white)

• Georgia Aster (formerly endangered, purple)

• Twisted Leaf Goldenrod

• Ageratum (“Hardy A.” “Wild A.”, Blue mistflower,

Eupatorium Coelestiumum)

• Zizia Aurea (yellow)

• Swamp Sunflower (Helianthus Angustifolia)

• Lobelia Cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)

• Monarda (Bee Balm)

• Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Georgia aster & goldenrod

Flowers for pollinators

• Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

• Purple Coneflower

• Black-eyed Susan (Goldstrum Rudbeckia)

• Salvia (hundreds of varieties; (I have Woodland Sage, Salvia Nemorosa)

• Woodland phlox (N,H,B, deer resistant)

• Lobelia (Cardinal Scarlet)

• Bee balm (Monarda, Jacob Cline)

• Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum flexuosum)

• St. John’s Wort

• Penstemon (Smooth beardtongue)

Natural Habitat

• Allow your yard to be a natural

habitat

• When we mulch pathways or

landscape with large areas of

concrete, we destroy the sunny

flat bare ground areas that most

nesting female bees need to raise

their young. Leave bare patches

for ground nesting bees. Provide

bare ground, twigs, and dead

limbs for nests and lots of flowers

for nectar and pollen.

Where to buy

Local:

• South Carolina Botanical Garden

Spring and Fall plant sales

October 8, 2016 (Friends 10/7/16)

154 Lace Cap Loop, SCBG, Clemson, SC

• Native Plant Society plant salesSeptember 30 & October 1, 2016

Putnam Greenhouse

180 Lakewood Drive

Greenville, SC 29607

On-line:

* Wayside Gardens

Mother Red Fox in my yard

Tiger swallowtail on my lantana

Honeybee on black eyed Susan

Bumblebee on Coneflower

Banded Hairstreak butterfly on Blue Mistflower

Dragonfly and Bumblebees on Salvia

Spicebush swallowtail on lantana

American Goldfinch eats seeds

Pipsissewa blooming my yard

Georgia aster & goldenrod

Mountain Laurel (Kalmia)

Dogwood and Sourwood Trees

Sourwood Tree

Clethra Alnifolia (Sweet Pepperbush)

Clethra Alnifolia (Sweet Pepperbush)