Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' Very tough. Isn't bothered by pests or disease. Can take full blazing sun and handle drought. Blooms like crazy. Gaillardia Care free. Like sandy soil. Can handle drought and keep blooming. Profuse blooms.

I'll give it a shot. Since this is a steep slope, you might consider planting weeping love grass there. The Georgia DOT plants a lot of this along steep slopes on highway cuts, particularly in the mountains. I think it would grow OK in South GA. Low maintenance is a relative term. There is always some maintenance involved, if for no other reason because weeds and trees will always start to invade a planting area over time. However, you could annually burn off the weeping love grass and that should control weeds and trees. Check with your local extension service about love grass and how to plant and grow it. I am sure you have seen it before. You usually see it on steep slopes along highways. It has a very fine texture and long grass blades, giving it a weeping form. It's very attractive. (I grew up in GA, but now live in NC.)

I just wanted to post a follow up in case anyone else is considering planting a low maintenence, drought tolerant lawn. In reading up on different grasses, it sounded like fine fescues require less water than regular KBG varieties.In looking up fine fescues, we were attracted to creeping red, since it spreads, which seemed to be a desirable trait, so bare spots would fill in. So last fall, we overseeded our patchy KBG lawn with Wendy Jean creeping red fescue (out of the brands that did good on the NTEP studies at www.ntep.org, it was the only one I could find available to purchase at a reasonable price). That grew in good last fall and this spring, but now that the weather is drier here in MN this month, that CRF grass is now the first to go brown and dormant. So I don't think it's going to make it as a low maintenance grass -- seems to need regular watering like KBG. Anyone else have any suggestions for a low maintenance, drought tolerant grass that grows well in Minnesota, that is reasonably priced. Would a sheep fescue or another of the bunchgrass fine fescues be a better choice for me? I saw some test plots at the Rosemount U of M station and they had low maintenance fine fescue mixtures that have grown in really thick with no fertilizer and no watering. Those seemed to be the bunchgrass fescues, when I looked closely, but nobody there knew exactly what kind. For any of you who have a successful lawn that requires no watering, did you plant fescue, and does it look like the bunchgrass variety or the creeping red variety?

Dutch white clover is often my go-to response to this question. If you already know you want a fescue, you might try one of the really dwarf varieties like Marathon III.