Ornamental Plants and Flowers

Ornamental Plants and Flowers

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Flowering plants can provide color and interest all season in the landscape. Learn how to select, plant, and grow all the annuals, perennials, vines, roses, and bulbs in your Iowa yard and garden, including natives.

Landscape Plants for Difficult Sites

When selecting annuals, perennials, and other plants, choose those that are adapted to the growing conditions at the planting site. Most landscape plants prefer moist, well-drained soils in full sun. However, there are plants that will tolerate more difficult sites such as excessively wet or dry.

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Ornamental Plants and Flowers Experts

Aaron Steil

Aaron Steil

Consumer Horticulture Extension Specialist
Selection and Care of Herbaceous Ornamentals
Native Plants
Plant Identification

Cindy Haynes

Cindy Haynes

Professor
Selection and Care of Herbaceous Ornamentals
Native Plants
Plant Identification