pH plant preferences: ornamental plants

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pH Plant Preferences

Ornamental Plants

Plants are listed here in columns according to the pH level they prefer. Note that some are very sensitive to pH levels outside their tolerant range, in which case they will appear in more than one column even though they are coloured yellow as being "sensitive".
A plain background means the plant is fairly tolerant.
A light green background means that this is an ideal pH for this plant.
A pink background means that this plant is very sensitive to the pH level of the soil.
A yellow background is the ideal pH for this sensitive plant

pH 4.5	pH 5.25	pH 6.0	pH 6.75	pH 7.5
Anemone	Begonia	Ageratum	Ageratum	Ageratum
Autumn Gentians	Calliopsis (Coreopsis)	Alyssum	Alyssum	Annual Phlox
Gentian	Chrysanthemum	Avens (Geum)	Annual phlox	Cherry pie (Heliotrope)
Iris kaempferi	Clarkia	Baby's breath (Gypsophila)	Aster	Cosmos (Cosmea)
Mecanopsis	Clary (Salvia)	Begonia	Avens (Geum)	Crocus
Pachysandra terminalis	Cosmos (Cosmea)	Burning bush (Kochia)	Baby's breath (Gypsophila)	Day lily (Hemerocalis)
	Grasses (Agrostis sp)	Busy lizzie (Impatiens)	Bachelor's buttons (Ranunculus)	Flax (Linum)
	Lupin	Calendula	Bearded iris	Forget me not (Myosotis)
	Marigold (Tagetes)	Calliopsis (Coreopsis)	Begonia	Geranium (Pelargonium)
	Nasturtium (Tropaeolium)	Campanula	Bleeding heart (Dicentra)	Hyacinth
	Pachysandra terminalis	Candytuft (Iberis)	Bluebell (Scilla)	Iceland poppy (Papaver)
	Pansy (Viola)	Carnation	Burning bush (Kochia)	Love lies bleeding (Amaranthus)
	Phlox	Chrysanth	Busy lizzie (Imaptiens)	Mignonette (Reseda)
	Pick a back (Ptolmeia)	Clarkia	Calendula	Nasturtium (Tropeaolium)
	Primrose (Primula)Violet (Viola)	Clary (Salvia)	Candytuft (Iberis)	Oxalis
	Violet (Viola)	Columbine (Aquilegia)	Carnation (Dianthus)	Peony
		Coral bells (Heuchera)	Cherry pie (Heliotrope)	Petunia
		Cosmos (Cosmea)	Chrysanth	Pinks (Dianthus)
		Daffodil	Clarkia	Poppy (Papaver)
		Dahlia	Columbine (Aquilegia)	Scilla
		Delphinium	Coral bells (Heuchera)	Snowdrop (Galanthus)
		Fuchsia	Cosmos (Cosmea)	Sweet pea (Lathyrus)
		Gladiolus	Crocus	Sweet William (Dianthus)
		Grasses (Agrostis sp)	Daffodil	Vebena
		Hollyhock (Althea)	Dahlia
		Impatiens	Daisy (Bellis)
		Iris	Delphinium
		Lilies (Lilium)	Euphorbia
		Lobelia	Feverfew (Chrysanth.)
		Lupin	Flax (Linum)
		Marigold (Tagetes)	Forget me not (Myosotis)
		Michelmas daisy (Aster)	Foxglove (Digitalis)
		Mignonette (Reseda)	Geranium
		Narcissus	Gladiolus
		Nasturtium (Tropaeolium)	Godetia
		Pansy (Viola)	Grasses
		Petunia	Hollyhock (Althea)
		Phlox	Hyacinth
		Pick a back (Ptolmeia)	Iceland poppy
		Primrose (Primula)	Impatiens
		Primula	Iris
		Purslane (Portulaca)	Polemonium (Jacobs Ladder)
		Red hot poker (Kniphophia)	Larkspur (Delphinium)
		Rose (Rosa)	Lily (Lilium)
		Salvia	Hemorocalis (Day Lily)
		Scabious	Lobelia
		Snapdragon (Antirrhinum)	Love lies bleeding
		Stock	Lupin
		Sunflower (Helianthus)	Marigold (Tagetes)
		Tobacco (Nicotiana)	Mignonette (Reseda)
		Tulip	Narcissus
		Verbena	Nasturtium
		Viola	Oxalis
		Violet (Viola)	Pansy (Viola)
		Wallflower	Peony
		Waterlily (Nymphea)	Petunia
		Zinnia	Pink (Dianthus)
			Poppy (Papaver)
			Portulaca
			Primrose (Primula)
			Pyrethrum
			Red hot poker (Kniphophia)
			Salvia
			Scabious
			Scilla
			Snapdragon (Antirrhinum)
			Spurge (Euphorbia)
			Snowdrop (Galanthus)
			Stock (Mathiola)
			Sunflower (Helianthus)
			Sweet pea (Lathyrus)
			Sweet william (Dianthus)
			Tobacco (Nicotiana)
			Tulip
			Verbena
			Viola
			Violet (Viola)
			Wallflower
			Zinnia

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