Plants & Combos for Keeping It Cool on a Hot Day

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Here in the Willamette Valley, we’ve been hunkered down waiting for cooler temps to return after a record-setting hot, hot, hot week. Until it returns to a more normal range, I’ve assembled a collection of plants and combos selected for their cooling effect.

Summer Blooms with Evergreen Carpet of Sedge

Cool colors such as pinks, blues and violet, silver, white and grey—whether it be foliage and/or flower—are easy on the eyes, soothe the soul, and take the temp down a notch.

Plants with Cool-colored Foliage
Flowers with Cool-colored Blooms

If you’re like me, the heat has you hightailing it to the shadiest spots in your garden. Even in the darkest corners, you can create a lush, foliage-focused refuge.

Ukigumo Maple—A White Highlight in a Sea of Green Foliage

Fantastic Plants & Combos Spotted in the Private Garden of a Pro

Or, roll with it and design a backyard oasis where you can imagine yourself on a tropical vacation, dangling your feet in the water, mai-tai in hand, enjoying a cool breeze, surrounded by lush, bold foliage and an exuberant flowering extravaganza that relies upon plants with an exotic flair.

Hot Orange Flowers with Cool White Grass

Or find a spot in the shade to flip through our site— it's loaded with designer planting combinations—select a plant then get ideas of what to plant with it. Or search for plants or combos based on color and form, growing conditions, design preferences or needs.

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