The document provides suggestions for drought-tolerant plantings, including trees and shrubs. It recommends strategically placing soaker hoses and rain barrels to reduce water use for plantings. Adding organic material to soil can help increase water retention. Xeriscaping principles of using low-water plants can create a low-maintenance, drought-resistant landscape. A list of over 30 drought-tolerant tree and shrub varieties is also included.

1. Suggested Shrubs Plantings to Conserve
• Photinia glabra. Grows to 10-feet;
Continued…. beautiful copper-red leaves; white Water During Droughts
flowers.
• Cotoneaster – many varieties. Grows • Potentilla – many varieties. Grows 3- Department of Planning,
to 20-feet; deciduous and evergreen feet – good sturdy shrubs with yellow Bureau of Resource Management
types. Red berries in the fall. Ground flowers.
covering plants or arching bushes.
• Prunus triloba (flowering almond).
• Deutzia - many varieties. Grows to 6- Grows to 12-feet; pink or white
feet; deciduous – fine pink or white flowers.
flowers.
• Pyracantha (firethorn – many varieties).
• Elaeagnus pungens – Grows to 15-feet; Grows to 15-feet; evergreen – bright
evergreen – red berries – good tough green leaves and abundant red berries.
shrub.
• Rosa (shrub type rose). Deciduous – the
• Forsythia – many varieties. Grows to 8- favorite old-fashioned shrub roses –
feet; deciduous - yellow flowers (A magnificent.
favorite).
• Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel).
Grows to 12-feet; deciduous – lovely
yellow leaves in fall.
• Kerria japonica. Grows to 6-feet;
deciduous – fine shrub with slender
green branches and yellow flowers.
• Kolkwitzia amabilis (beauty bush). Carroll County Government
Grows to 12-feet; deciduous – graceful Bureau of Resource Management
bush with pink blooms. 225 North Center Street, Room 209
Westminster, Maryland 21157
• Philadelphus coronarius (sweet mock
(Forsythia) Phone No.: (410) 386-2506
orange – many varieties). Grows to 10- Fax No.: (410) 386-2924
feet; known for beautiful flowers.
E-Mail: jbowman@ccg.carr.org – for
questions relating to plant material.
E-Mail: ccwater@ccg.carr.org – for
information relating to Carroll
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2. Landscaping for Drought Suggested Trees
This brochure is a guide to help you to create a • Acacia floribunda (golden wattle). Grows • Pinus (pine – many varieties). Hardy
pleasing landscape design that can thrive, with to 20-feet; an evergreen. It is fast growing group of evergreen trees.
little maintenance, during periods of drought. with yellow flowers.
Since purchasing trees and shrubs can be very • Prunus (flowering cherry and almond).
expensive, choosing the right plant is • Betula (birch – many varieties). A group of Deciduous – large variety of leaf and
important. Utilizing drought resistant plants in hardy deciduous trees known for winter flower colors.
a well planned manner can enhance your beauty.
property in many ways and still allow you to • Quercus (Oak– several varieties).
ignore that hose and watering can. So, how can • Celtis australis (European hackberry). Large deciduous acorn producing trees.
you conserve water? Below are some Grows to 20-feet; deciduous – Elm-like
suggestions: shade tree. • Robinia hispida (locust). Grows to
20-feet; deciduous – pink flowers –
1. By adding organic material like lassenite • Crataegus oxyacantha (hawthorn). Grows good, small, drought resistant tree.
to the soil will help increase its absorption to 20-feet; deciduous – beautiful fall color.
and water retention.
• Fraxinus pensylvanica lanceolata (Green Suggested Shrubs
2. You can greatly reduce the amount of water Ash). Grows to 60-feet; deciduous – one of
used for trees and shrubs with strategic the few ashes that can take drought. • Abelia grandiflora (Glossy Abelia).
placement of soaker hoses, rain barrel Grows to 6-feet; widely branding with
water catchment systems, using a watering • Ginko biloba (ginko). Grows to 60-feet; profuse summer flowers.
meter, or using a simple drip-irrigation deciduous – select male tree – leaves have
systems, or bright yellow fall color. • Amelanchier grandiflora. Grows to 20-
feet – beautiful red autumn foliage.
3. You can consider applying the principles • Gleditschia triacanthos (honey-locust).
of xeriscape (refers to landscaping and Deciduous – very handsome light green lacy • Buddleia alternifolia (butterfly bush).
gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate foliage. Grows to 12-feet; deciduous – widely
the need for supplemental irrigation) for a branching with lilac type flowers.
low-maintenance, drought resistant yard. • Juniperus (juniper – many varieties). Good
group of evergreen trees and shrubs that • Caryopteris – many varieties. Grows to
can take drought. 3-feet; deciduous – lovely blue flowers.
• Koelreuteria paniculata (golden rain tree). • Cornus mas (Connelian cherry
Grows to 25-feet; deciduous – yellow dogwood). Grows to 20-feet – one of
flowers and interesting fruit capsules. the few in the Cornus group that will
tolerate dry conditions.
• Malus (flowering crab apple – many
varieties). From the rose family and valued • Cotinus coggygria (European smoke
for year-round beauty. tree). Grows to 12-feet; a unique
shrub with good color almost all year
• Phellodendron amurense (cork tree). Grows around.
to 40-feet; deciduous – decorative dark
(Flowering Cherry)
green foliage that turns yellow in the fall.