Slope Garden

The Tri-County Master Gardeners took on a project to reclaim a weedy, west facing slope by the Fruit Experiment Station Horticulture Garden.  Usually weedy and difficult to mow, this area was a prominent eyesore until Joyce Kennedy and Janet Chapin,  the gardeners in charge of the design and implementation of the project, tackled the slope.

The purpose of all the gardens in the Ozark Home Landscape is to demonstrate to home gardeners what will grow in the local conditions.  In the slope garden, for instance, we wanted to test plant materials that would do well (or even survive!) in the following difficult conditions.  The garden evolved for 4 years with the help of many of the master gardeners, to this point (see photo taken 11/29/06) and only needs a few more plants to complete it. 

The current plants on t he slope include:
Shrubs:
Buddleia fallowina 'Lochinch'
Buddleia nanhoensis 'Nanho'
Barberry 'Crimson Pygmy'
Forsythia 'Gold Tide'
Spirea 'Magic Carpet', 'Goldflame' and 'Goldmound'

Grasses:
Feather Reed Grass 'Karl Foerster'
Miscanthus sinensis Gracillinus
Miscanthus sinensis Zebrinum
Pennisetum 'National Arboretum'

Perennials:
Anemone tomentose 'Robustissima'
Echinacea 'White Swan'
Hemerocallis 'Stella D'Oro'
Perovskia atriplicifolia - Russian Sage
Sedum spectabile - Autumn Joy and Autumn Fire
Sedum matrona
Yucca filamentosa

Landscape roses:
White Meidiland
Fire Meidiland
Electric Blanket

Junipers:
'Green Mound'
'Blue Star'
'Blue Rug'

Groundcovers:
Sedum kamschaticum
Liriope