Plants for Waterfront Living
by Kathy Van Mullekom, a lifelong gardener and gardening writer living in York County, VirginiaHaving lived on some kind of waterway for 25 years, I’ve learned much about the good and bad of waterfront gardening. The good is that plants are often tougher than you think they are. Our yards have been though numerous saltwater tidal floods and most of the plants thrive just fine. Happily for me and the plants, refreshing rains typically follow flooding and wash away much of any salinity in the soil.