# Wet Spot Pack > Six natives for the corner that floods each spring: bald cypress, sweetbay magnolia, smooth alder, silky dogwood, winterberry and swamp doghobble, zones 5 to 8. Blue Whale Trees, a native tree nursery in the United States. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/wet-spot/ For the corner where the lawn drowns every spring. Every plant here tolerates standing water, and together they give fragrance, winter berries and year-round structure. ## Plants in the set - [Sweetbay Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweetbay-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia virginiana*): Small tree, zones 5 to 10, 15 to 35 ft, not yet priced online. Lemon-scented white flowers from May into summer, silver-backed leaves, and a love of wet ground. - [Winterberry Holly](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/winterberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex verticillata*): Shrub, zones 3 to 9, 6 to 12 ft, not yet priced online. Bare winter branches lined with scarlet berries, on a deciduous holly that loves wet ground. - [Silky Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/silky-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus amomum*): Shrub, zones 4 to 8, 6 to 12 ft, not yet priced online. Creamy flower clusters in June, porcelain-blue berries in September and purple-red winter stems for wet spots. - [Bald Cypress](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bald-cypress/index.html.md) (*Taxodium distichum*): Large tree, zones 4 to 10, 50 to 80 ft, not yet priced online. The swamp conifer that also thrives on dry lawns, with feathery foliage that turns rust-orange in fall. - [Smooth Alder (Swamp Alder)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/smooth-alder/index.html.md) (*Alnus serrulata*): Shrub, zones 4 to 9, 10 to 20 ft, not yet priced online. A nitrogen-fixing streambank shrub that holds soil, feeds woodcock and grouse, and thrives in standing water. - [Swamp Doghobble](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-doghobble/index.html.md) (*Eubotrys racemosa*): Shrub, zones 5 to 9, 4 to 10 ft, not yet priced online. Arching sprays of white bell flowers in May on a deciduous heath shrub for wet, acid, shady ground. ## Why these six go together Every plant here stands in water for weeks and shrugs off wet feet the rest of the year, and together they make a complete planting rather than a puddle with a tree in it. Bald cypress is the canopy, a swamp conifer that also thrives on a dry lawn, with feathery foliage that turns rust-orange in fall. Sweetbay magnolia carries lemon-scented white flowers from May into summer. Smooth alder fixes nitrogen and holds the bank. Silky dogwood flowers in June and hangs porcelain-blue fruit in September; winterberry lines its bare branches with scarlet fruit all winter; swamp doghobble arches sprays of white bells in May in the shadiest, wettest corner. Between them they feed birds from September to March, hold the soil against a spring flood, and give the spot structure in every season. ## Where it fits The set is for ground that floods in spring and stays damp in summer: a swale, a pond edge, the low corner of a lawn, a ditch bank. Bald cypress, sweetbay, silky dogwood, winterberry and alder want full sun or light shade; doghobble takes shade. Together they are hardy in zones 5 through 8, with cypress, winterberry and alder hardy well beyond that range. Sizes: bald cypress 50 to 80 feet, sweetbay 15 to 35, alder 10 to 20, silky dogwood and winterberry 6 to 12, doghobble 4 to 10. Give the cypress 30 feet from anything it could shade out, and put it and the alder in the wettest ground; the rest take the edges. ## Planting the pack Plant while dormant, in the wet season if the ground allows it, and mulch with leaves. Winterberry needs a male within about 50 feet for every ten females, and a seedling does not show its sex until it flowers, so plant five or more. Silky dogwood and alder grow fast and can be cut hard when they sprawl; cypress and sweetbay are best left to their own shape. None of these need watering once established, and none need fertilizer on ground that floods, which brings its own. Order the plants individually from their pages, or email captain@bluewhaletrees.com to have the whole set put together at the sizes on hand. ## Other bundles - [Honey Tree Trio](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/honey-trio/index.html.md): Three of the finest nectar trees in eastern North America. Black locust and basswood give the lightest, most sought-after honeys; black gum flowers between them and colors scarlet in fall. 3 plants. - [Shade Understory Pack](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/shade-understory/index.html.md): Five plants that are happiest under a canopy of oaks: flowers from March to November, fruit for thrushes, and the host plants of two swallowtails. 5 plants. - [Dry Sandy Site Pack](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/dry-sandy/index.html.md): Pine-barrens and prairie toughness for sand, gravel and drought: two shrub oaks, two fruit plants, prairie leadplant and the best fall color on a dry bank. 6 plants. - [Native Edible Orchard](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/edible-orchard/index.html.md): A food forest from native species only: fruit from June to October, nuts in the fall, and no spray program. 6 plants. - [Bird & Berry Hedgerow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/bird-hedgerow/index.html.md): A mixed native hedge that fruits from June through the following March, with dense cover for nesting and thorns at the edges. 7 plants. - [Rare Oak Collection](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/rare-oak-collection/index.html.md): Five oaks almost nobody grows, from two-foot scrub oaks to an eighty-foot bottomland giant. A living collection for a large property or a conservation planting. 5 plants.