Blue Atlas Cedar
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Easy Care Plants
There are a number of good, care-free plants that are not native to our region. If you live beside a natural area, you probably want to avoid most non-native plants, but for the typical suburban yard, these are all excellent choices.
- Barrenwort (Epimedium selections), perennial
- Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis and alba), perennial
- Blue Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica glauca), evergreen tree
- Butterfly Bush (Buddlea davidii), shrub
- Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroema indica), large shrub
- Daffodils (Narcissus selections), bulb
- Garden Peony (Paonia selections), perennial
- German/Bearded Iris & Siberian Iris, perennial/tuber
- Grape Hyacinth (Muscari areminaceum), bulb
- Honorine Jobert Japanese Anemone (Anemone x hybrida Honorine Jobert)
- Nandina False Bamboo (Nandina domestica), shrub
- Plumbago/Leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides), perennial
- Shasta Doublefile Viburnum (Viburnum plicatum tomentosum Shasta), shrub
- Thomas Winter Crocus (Crocus tommassinus), bulb
- Variegated False Solomons Seal (Polygonatum odoratum Variegata), corm
Additional images
Barrenwort is happy in dry shade.
Daffodil Thalia is an old fashioned triandrus type.
German Bearded Iris come in all colors.
Grape Hyacinth is happiest in part-shade.
Honorine Jobert Anemone blooms from September into
November, much longer than other selections.
Nandina False bamboo doesn't spread like its namesake.
This is a dwarf selection. Nandinas are semi-evergreen.
Plumbago or Leadwort has true blue flowers & red fall color
Shasta Viburnum puts on a real show in May.
Thomas's Crocus blooms earlier than many crocuses.
Variegated False Solomon's Seal is a nice groundcover for
shade or part-shade, here it grows beside a small hosta.