Gardening Tips: Some beach plants can survive locally

Posted: Friday, July 6, 2012 10:47 am

Gardening Tips: Some beach plants can survive locally

By Matthew Stevens

RR Daily Herald

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I’m writing this week’s column from vacation at a small town near Virginia Beach. My family has been coming here every summer for about 15 years, and I’m always fascinated by the landscaping.

It is a fairly wealthy area so, as you might expect, many of the houses have very lavish landscapes with finely manicured lawns and lovely trees and shrubs, but that begins to change as you approach the shore. The closer you get to the beach, the more the landscape starts to resemble the beach itself. Yards become little mounds of sand, with only a select few plants able to withstand the harsh beach environment of hot sun, sandy soil, salt and wind.

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