Episode 21: Hellstrip Plants

Blazing heat, lean soil, salt, and snowplows are no match for these tough cookies

A hellstrip is typically a eyepatch of garden located by the roadside . It broadly speaking has crappy soil , gets hammered by sun , and has to deal with the occasional dose of road salt or even getting run over by bad drivers . This could be the most challenging spot to garden , but the plants in this episode ascent to the occasion . Find out which perennials and shrubs laugh in the side of these hellish condition and look undecomposed while doing it .

Expert : Kelly Norris , director of horticulture and education at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in Iowa .

‘ Autumn Minaret ’ daylily(Hemerocallis‘Autumn Minaret ’ , Zones 3–9 ) shoots off its own 4th of July fireworks . In June 21 the tough - as - nails industrial plant place up 6 - foot - tall bright yellow blossom that hold on for week .

alone might as well be the middle name of‘Blonde Ambition ’ gramma grass(Bouteloua gracilis‘Blonde Ambition ’ , Zones 3–10 ) . Its creamy yellowness , flaglike bloom give the works an interesting looking and an alluring grain that ’s hard to beat .

Almost any catnip will do well by the roadside , but one of Steve ’s favorites is‘Six Hills Giant’(Nepeta‘Six Hills Giant ’ , Zones 4–7 ) because its flowers are big and a brighter lavender , giving the plant serious eye - overtake prayer .

Although not one of Danielle ’s favored plant because it can be hard to flux into the landscape , Steve blaspheme by the class - round color and drought margin of ‘ Color Guard ’ yucca ( Yucca filamentosa‘Color Guard ’ , Zones 4–10 ) .

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