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Probably need to provide a little more info to get a good recommendation. Sun? Shade? Wet? Dry? Clay? Sand? 10 foot hedge for privacy? Groundcover? Flowers? Winter interest? 

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Need salt-resistant plants for sunny, mostly dry area with minimal (old) watering system; soil  has great drainage but next to sidewalk. Prefer year-round evergreens, but not sure if there is any varieties that can survive salt; currently area has few overgrown viburnum that need to be removed and replaced with 3-4 ft high slow-growing specimens - is there such a plant? Ground cover would/could be placed additionally in area. Open for recommendations for Michigan friendly plants.

 

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How much salt -- just the amount a person uses at home, or the heavy amount a commercial establishment uses to be sure, sure, sure no one slips?

Do you have a curb on the bed to keep meltwater from runnning freely into the bed? Makes a big difference.

 

The small ornamental grasses like prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), blue fescue (Festuca ovina glauca) and blue oat grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens) can work there if the salt is mainly coming from being scattered from above (one reason is that their foliage intercepts the salt and then we clip that away in early spring) but almost nothing we know of  will do well if the soil is being loaded with salty water, too.

Janet

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