What are some good plants or trees that help with water drainage?
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Carol on Mar 16, 2012Button Bush - can grow as a bush or a tree. Loves water. Friend of mine has one and it's doing great. For all zones. Fun plant.Helpful Reply
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Erica Glasener on Mar 16, 2012Sara, it would help to know where you live and if you are looking for large trees, shrubs, etc. Button bush is a good choice for a native here is a link with photo, hardy from Zone 5 to 9, not all zones. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/plant-finder/plant-details/kc/g830/cephalanthus-occidentalis.aspxHelpful Reply
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3po3 on Mar 16, 2012Photos of the site also might help folks offer more helpful advice for you.Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Mar 17, 2012Sara, yes, please tell us where you are and whether you are looking for something for sun or shade. When you say "help with water drainage," are you just looking for plants that will be happy in a wet situation?Helpful Reply
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Melissa W on Mar 17, 2012I am Carol's friend that has the Button Bush. It is growing where I couldn't get anything else to grow--in a really wet corner. I bought it through mail order as a "stick" a few years ago and have trained it into a tree. It's probably 8 feet now, has these "sputnick" type blooms through the summer and doesn't seem to be bothered by anything--bugs or weather. It really solved my problem.Helpful Reply
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Sara D on Mar 17, 2012I live in Va, and looking to do something in the back yard, where we have alot of water that runs off into our backyard from the neighbors yardHelpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Mar 18, 2012In addition to the buttonbush, other shrubs that like moist to wet conditions include clethra, itea, red twig dogwoods, winterberry hollies and sambucus. Among trees, both pond cypress and bald cypress come immediately to mind, as well as dawn redwood and, of course, the willows.Helpful Reply
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Erica Glasener on Mar 18, 2012Douglas recommends great choices, Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet' has flowers in spring and great fall color, winterberry (deciduous hollies) have beautiful fruits in winterHelpful Reply
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Nelly L on Mar 18, 2012itea...............is that to pland in poor drainage garden?Helpful Reply
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Nelly L on Mar 18, 2012also podles of water in front yard, is sand a good fillerHelpful Reply
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Erica Glasener on Mar 18, 2012Itea virginica will take wet soils, I have seen it growing on the banks of a bald cypress swamp. Not sure I would plant in straight sand.Helpful Reply
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Nichter's Home Services Corp on Mar 18, 2012Willow treeHelpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Mar 19, 2012Nelly, these plants will take the wet conditions you have, but not change them. If you want to do that, you are going to have some drainage work done.Helpful Reply
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Craig G on Apr 02, 2015If you have a really bad situation and it is a low spot look up french drain.Helpful Reply
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