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)