Here are 10 Beautiful Plants for Dry Soil Areas to help you expand the area of planting in dry soil places in the garden. Growing these plants will fill up bare lands without wasting any section of your garden, at the same time they give your garden a variety of plants. They are among some of the most colorful and attractive plants, even there some of them attract bees and pollinators to visit your vegetable garden.
#1 Passionflowers
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Passionflowers thrive in zones 5 to 9. It prefers to grow in full sun or partial shade. Its fragrant flowers bloom during the summer season with white petals that surround a central crown of pinkish-purple filament, and each flower also has white sepals. After the flowers fade, egg-shaped fruits often appear that turn yellowish in the fall.
#2 African Lily
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African Lily is a warm-weather plant that grows well in zones 8 to 10. It has evergreen, grass-like leaves and when summer comes, it produces a flower stalk that is about 20-inches tall and funnel-shaped, blue flowers grow in a cluster on the stem. It thrives in areas that get shade in the afternoon.
#3 Wand Flower (Gaura)
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Wand Flower (Gaura) is a sun-loving plant that does well in zones 5 to 9 and reaches about 5 feet tall. This plant produces pinkish buds along the entire stem then opens to reveal white flowers. Once the flowers mature, they turn pink. And each flower stem has multiple spoon-shaped leaves and only a few of the flowers on each stem will open at once.
#4 Pinks (Dianthus spp.)
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Pinks (Dianthus spp.) grows well in zones 3 to 9 and brings stunning flowers from May until the first hard freeze. Its red, pink, and white flowers can be found in single-and-double-flowered plants.
#5 Foxtail lilies (Eremurus)
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Foxtail lilies (Eremurus) grow in zones 5 to 8 and produce about a 2-foot square clump. Its leaves grow up to 18 inches tall and a leafless stalk is grown out of the center of the clump that can be up to 6 feet tall. Its flowers open in the late spring.
#6 Cardoon (Cynara)
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Cardoon (Cynara) grows well in zones 7 to 9 and can grow u to 3 to 6 feet tall. In late summer, out of the middle grows a stalk that produces a thistle-like blue-violet flower. You can cut its flowers and use them in flower arrangements or dried.
#7 Balloon Flower
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Balloon Flower does well in zones 3 to 8. Before they open purple, five-pointed-lobe flowers you will see its flower buds blow up like a balloon, hence the name.
#8 Lamb’s Ears
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Lamb’s Ears produce a thick mat of leaves so they often are used as ground cover plants. On summer days, each plant comes produces a flowering spike that bars a small purplish-pink flower.
#9 Lilyturf
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The plant grows to be about 16 inches tall and produces arch and glossy dark-green leaves. It produces a tiered whorl tightly packed with tiny violet-purple flowers in the late summer. After the flowers fade, blackberries often appear.
#10 Bearded Iris
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Bearded Iris is a sun-loving plant and does well in 3 to 10. It can grow up to 30 inches tall. In the late spring, it produces flowers, each stalk typically produces six flowers.
