Texas Gardening: Favorite Suggestions for Plants that Tolerate Clay Soil?, 1 by crowellli

crowellli wrote:
These are my toughest plants that tolerate poor soil, have no pest problems and require little care of any kind. Most get a handful of ozmacote once or twice a year and that's it. Glossy abelia, american beautyberry, plumbago, oleander, turk's cap, daylilies, crepe myrtles, confederate jasmine, duranta, esperanza, pentas, mexican bird of paradise shrub, cannas, crinum and louisiana iris. I also have excellent luck with knockout roses and vitex planted in unamended clay soil, but in well draining locations. The roses have really surprised me. When I put them in, they were under some crepe myrtles that were here when we bought the house. The bed under the crepes was empty, but full of roots. We just dug and planted. The roses were doing O.K., but the crepes were a variety that had fungal problems all the time, so we removed them a couple of months ago. The roses are now flourishing. Here's a link for picture of the roses and I've attached one of the Princess Di canna.

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