What are some good plants or trees that help with water drainage?
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Sara D
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Button 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.
Carol
on Mar 16, 2012
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Sara, 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.aspx
Erica Glasener
on Mar 16, 2012
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Photos of the site also might help folks offer more helpful advice for you.
3po3
on Mar 16, 2012
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Sara, 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?
Douglas Hunt
on Mar 17, 2012
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I 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.
Melissa W
on Mar 17, 2012
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I 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 yard
Sara D
on Mar 17, 2012
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In 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.
Douglas Hunt
on Mar 18, 2012
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Douglas recommends great choices, Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet' has flowers in spring and great fall color, winterberry (deciduous hollies) have beautiful fruits in winter
Erica Glasener
on Mar 18, 2012
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itea...............is that to pland in poor drainage garden?
Nelly L
on Mar 18, 2012
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also podles of water in front yard, is sand a good filler
Nelly L
on Mar 18, 2012
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Itea 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.
Erica Glasener
on Mar 18, 2012
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Willow tree
Nichter's Home Services Corp
on Mar 18, 2012
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Nelly, 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.
Douglas Hunt
on Mar 19, 2012
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If you have a really bad situation and it is a low spot look up french drain.
Craig G
on Apr 02, 2015
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