Salt- and drought-tolerant flowering plants

What flowering plants can survive salt and sand during the winter?

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##FULL QUESTION## Dear *Gardening Life*, What are good salt- and drought-tolerant flowering plants for a streetside planting that gets salt/sand dumped on it every winter? *—Trish Crowe, Kingston, ON*

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##FULL ANSWER## Trish, You can try tough-as-nails rugosa roses, chokeberry, cotoneaster and potentilla for shrubs, and feather reed grass, wood aster, barren strawberry, yucca and daylilies for perennials. Or just plant annuals in the area for a changing yearly display. I suggest you construct a little fence (so the snow will pile around it) and move the planting back. Neutralize salty soil in spring with lots of water and compost. *—Marjorie Harris, Editor at Large* Other questions recently answered by the GL team: Vine types to grow on a new pergola Maintaining purple fountain grass Keeping bougainvilllea healthy throughout the winer How to rid invasive green goutweed Good garden uses for fireplace ashes Growing grape hyacinth indoors The best way to convert a lawn into a meadow The proper way to grow rhododendrons Eliminating beetle damage to spruce trees Annual resembling Japanese maple Planting ivy near cedar trees In search of the 'Sundance Kid' sunflower Caring for canna bulbs A supplier for barren strawberry ground cover Winter care for roses Cutting back mauna loa The best time to harvest curly-leaf lettuce Eliminating invasive trumpet Caring for double-flowering hibiscus trees Eliminating white aphids from honeysuckle vine Where to purchase Japanese blood grass An alternative to rhododendrons Growing a vegetable garden over a septic field Dividing and replanting daylilies Proper care for oakleaf hydrangea The best care for shrub roses 'The Fairy' Pest eating purple leaf sand cherry Preventing lawn brown spots Keeping plants sturdy Preventing suckers from a cut-down serviceberry tree Best tomato seeds to sow Preventing wind damage to grasses Plants to highlight a pool Reshaping yew tree The best way to replace a lawn Best screening plants for privacy Buying snowberries in Montreal Keeping 'Endless Summer' hydrangea growing strong The proper way to fill planters The proper way to grow hyacinths Boston ivy and rough winters Fast growing shade tree Using black walnut chips under a cedar tree Compatible plants with bell peppers Beneficial plants for roses Growing berries on a firethorn Improving asparagus garden Medium-height planting suggestions Safe allergy-friendly flowers

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