Erosion Control Plants

This hardy evergreen shrub has long-blooming white flowers and responds well to pruning.

An easy-care plant with long-blooming pinkish flowers all season.

Wonderful orange flowering milkweed that attracts butterflies.

Blue-green grass-like foliage that forms dense clumps.

Often used in mass plantings, this plant's fall color and red stems brighten the winter landscape.

This wispy grass is perfect for meadow plantings or for use in soil retention and erosion control.

Cold hardy plant frequently planted in large masses. A breathtaking display of fall color when in a hedge or mass planting.

An easy-to-grow perennial with ability to withstand the toughest of harsh growing conditions.

Southern Gentleman is another male cultivar that can be used for berry production for the female Winter Red Holly.

Winter Red is a female Winterberry Holly that produces branches loaded with bright red berries in the winter. Requires a male pollinator.

Strong vertical, variegated foliage is great contrast to other perennials with horizontal habit.

This shrub creates contrast with color and texture, especially when mixed with green plants.

This shrub is ideal for erosion control on slopes or massed in the shrub border.

Low-growing shrub ideal for use as contrast in shrub borders.

Low-growing shrub ideal for erosion control on slopes or as ground cover in a sunny border.

Low-growing shrub ideal for erosion control on slopes or as ground cover in a sunny border.

Golden Juniperus conferta, a great groundcover for when you need a splash of color.

Low-growing shrub ideal for erosion control on slopes or as ground cover in a sunny border.

Beautiful blue-gray foliage, purple in winter.

Really nice ground cover or looks great cascading over wall.

Gray-green foliage turns plum in the winter.

Bright green foliage, turning more blue as it matures. Purple tints in the winter.

Easy care shrub that is a real beauty in contrast to green plants.

This hardy Lantana has a multicolor flower head with yellow, orange, and pink petals.

New Gold Lantana blooms bright yellow all summer long, providing great color contrast with its dark green leaves.

Vigorous ground cover with lavender flowers followed by black berries. 

Very effective variegated foliage used as an accent with green plants.

Eye-catching bursts of color when this grass is in full bloom.

Adapts very well to the heat of summer and to dry, poor soils.

An excellent choice for a grass when planted in dry areas. Delicate blades offer an attractive wind-blown look.

Native deciduous shrub that can tolerate wet areas.

This native clumping grass gives the look of a meadow or prairie.