Create a Mixed (Mostly) Native Hedge
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Mixed plantings using mostly natives can do a great job at blocking views and delineating boundaries. Photo taken at the Flat Rock Park Pollinator Garden.
Lately I have been encouraging people to plant mixed hedges instead of mono-crop hedges made up of one type of evergreen. Utilizing a mix of deciduous and evergreen, tree and shrub, grass and perennial plants provides the diversity needed to attract and provide for wildlife. We should all try to utilize mostly native plants in our landscapes when we are able to do so. However, there are some really great non-native garden plants. At a minimum we should avoid invasive plants.
Monoculture plantings of evergreen plants is the norm in landscape plantings. Mixed plantings provide much more habitat and food for wildlife such as bees, butterflies and birds.
(Mostly) Native Plant List for Henderson County
Small trees up to 25′ – (deciduous)
Native – service berry, hornbeam, redbud, dogwood, fringe tree, Carolina silverbell, hornbeam
Non-native – Japanese Maple, Paperbark maple, trident maple, Kousa dogwood, smoke tree, Japanese Stewartia
(evergreen)
Native – red cedar, western or eastern arborvitae, American holly, Savannah holly, small southern magnolia cultivars
Non-native – Emily Bruner holly, Nellie R. Steven holly, Prague viburnum, Foster’s holly
Large Trees over 25′ – (deciduous)
Native – red maple, sugar maple, river birch, yellowwood, beech, birch, cucumber tree, oaks
Non-native – dawn redwood, lacebark elm, zelkova
(evergreen)
Native – spruce, hemlock, fir, pines, Atlantic white cedar, arborvitae, red cedar, southern magnolia
Non-native – cryptomeria, oriental arborvitae, cypresses, and pines
Shrubs under 4′
(deciduous)
Native – St. John’s wort, lowbush blueberry, cranberry, maple leaf viburnum, hydrangea, American beautyberry
Non-native – cotoneaster
(evergreen)
Native – dog hobble, American boxwood, dwarf native conifers
Non-native – Japanese holly, deutzia, plum yew, sarcacocca quince
Mid-sized Shrubs over 4′ under 10′
(deciduous)
Native – sweetshrub, red-twig dogwood, hearts-a-bustin’, fothergilla, hypericum, winterberry, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, native azaleas, elderberry, highbush blueberry, deciduous viburnum, leatherleaf viburnum, spirea
Non-native – abelia, forsythia
(evergreen)
Native – mountain laurel, rhododendron, inkberry
Non-native – tea olive, camelia
Large shrubs over 10′
(deciduous)
Native – smooth sumac, arrowwood viburnum, bottlebrush buckeye, witch hazel. oakleaf hydrangea, ninebark
Non-native –
(evergreen)
Native – rhododendron, mountain laurel
Non-native – Nellie R. Stevens holly, Emily Brunner holly, Dwarf Burford holly
Vines
(deciduous) crossvine, trumpet creeper, climbing hydrangea, coral honeysuckle, Virginia creeper, fox grape
Grasses
bluestem, broomsedge, river oats, switch grass, pink muhly grass, lovegrass (more grasses)
Groundcovers
(deciduous)
Native – pussy’s toes, wild ginger, partridge berry, pachysandra, phlox, golden aster, Christmas fern, Oconee bells, yellow root, green and gold
(evergreen)
Native – shore juniper, blue rug juniper,
Wildflowers
annual wildflower mix for the south from Eden Brothers or American Meadows websites
Perennials
black-eyed Susan, coneflower, milkweed, asters, false indigo, coreopsis, Joe Pye weed, Carolina geranium, swamp sunflower, bee balm, Carolina phlox, Cardinal flower, mountain mint
mixed hedge
Mixed planting Bullington Gardens
