As winter ends and the snow melts, salt can damage your yard and plants. The de-icing salt materials can contaminate your soil and be very harmful to your sensitive plants.
Below are a list of plants that show salt tolerance:
Trees
- Black Locust
- Catulpa
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Hawthorn
- Honeylocust
- Kentucky Coffee Tree
- Magnolia
- Service berry
- Shagbark Hickory
Evergreens
- Blue Spruce
- Mugo Pine
- White Fir
- White Spruce
Shrubs
- Alpine
- Currant
- Cotoneaster
- Forsythia
- Lilac
- Rose of Sharon
- Spirea
- Sumac
- Viburnum
- Weigela
Grasses
- Switch Grass
- Fountain Grass
- Little Blue Stem
Please see the salt before for more information on salt and how it can affect your yard and plants. Read more HERE