Deer Resistant Plants

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  • Hesperaloe parviflora Red Yucca Z 6-9

    Cerise scarlet trumpets up and down the flower spike in summer

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    Cerise scarlet trumpets up and down the flower spike in summer

    Size: 3’ x 5’
    Care: sun moist well-drained to dry soil
    Native: Europe, west & central Asia
    Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies & hummingbirds. Deer and rabbit tolerant,

    Named by Dr. George Engelmann, a German physician and plant fanatic who emigrated to America in the early 1800’s, settling in St. Louis.

  • Heuchera sanguinea Coral bells, Alumroot Z 3-8

    Coral red flowers in late spring through early summer.  “One of the finest hardy perennials recently introduced …bright crimson flowers…very graceful,” Farquhar Catalog, 1893.

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    Coral red flowers in late spring through early summer.  “One of the finest hardy perennials recently introduced …bright crimson flowers…very graceful,” Farquhar Catalog, 1893.

    Size: 12" x 12"
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Western U.S.- Rocky Mountains

    Genus Heuchera named for Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677-1747) professor of medicine at Wittenburg University. This species collected Be Dr. Frederick Adolph Wislizenus in the Porphyry Mountains of Llanos Mexico on the Col. Doiphan Expedition in 1846-7. Named by Dr. George Engelmann, (1809-1884) physician and avid botanist encouraging and supporting those who explored for plants.  He emigrated from Germany and settled in St. Louis. Plant popular in the 1880’s.

  • Heuchera versicolor syn. H. rubescens var. versicolor Pink alumroot Z 4-10

    Tiny pink bells on narrow inflorescence blooming mid to late summer

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    Tiny pink bells on narrow inflorescence blooming mid to late summer

    Size: 8-12” x 12"
    Care: prefers part shade in moist well-drained to well drained soil, can grow in sun with moist soil. Deer resistant.
    Native: southwestern US
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds

    First collected in 1904 on damp, shady bluffs of the Black Range in New Mexico, accd. to Edward Lee Greene.

    The roots are astringent and can also be used as an alum substitute, used in fixing dyes. Was also used medicinally for fever, diarrhea, venereal disease, liver ailments, eyewash, colic and animal care.  Heuchera is named for Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677-1747), while rubescens means becoming red or reddish, and versicolor means variously colored.

  • Horminum pyrenaicum   Dragonmouth, Pyrenean Dead-nettle   Z 5-9

    Deep purple salvia-like blooms in April to May above rosettes of wide, flat leaves

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    Deep purple salvia-like blooms late spring to early summer above rosettes of wide, flat leaves

     

     

    Size: 8-16” x 12” 
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.  Drought tolerant.
    Native: Pyrenees & Alps
    Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant.

    Before 1753, Linnaeus.

  • Iris ‘Wabash’ Z 3-8

    Pure white standards with deep purple falls edged in white and a bright yellow beard in late May-early June. “A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race.” Cooley’s Gardens catalog, 1938

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    Pure white standards with deep purple falls edged in white and a bright yellow beard in late May-early June. “A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race.” Cooley’s Gardens catalog, 1938

    Size: 39" x 8"
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil. In July-August lift & divide every 2 to 3 years; discard mushy rhizomes.
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.
    Awards: Dykes award (best iris in world) winner 1940.

     Iris is named after the Greek goddess who accompanied the souls of women to the Elysian Fields by way of the rainbow.  Her footprints left flowers the colors of the rainbow.   Iris means the eye of heaven. The iris is the flower of chivalry, having “a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart.
    Hybridized by Mary Williamson in 1936, daughter of famed iris hybridizer E.B. Williamson. She became a renowned hybridizer in her own right. ‘Wabash’, is a cross of ‘Dorothy Dietz’ with ‘Cantabile.’

  • Iris missouriensis Western blue flag, Rocky Mountain iris Z 3-8

    In spring variegated, violet blue iris flowers - 6 perianth segments, 3 spreading to reflexed falls with a dark yellow-orange stripe down the middle with blue lines on a white background, & 3 purple standards.

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    In spring variegated, violet blue iris flowers – 6 perianth segments, 3 spreading to reflexed falls with a dark yellow-orange stripe down the middle with blue lines on a white background, & 3 purple standards.

    Size: 12-24” x 9-12”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to moist soil. Divide regularly.
    Native: Alberta and British Columbia, from Minnesota to Washington south to California east to New Mexico
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Attracts hummingbirds, provides pollen to bees.

    Named for the Missouri River although ironically Lewis collected it along the Blackfoot River in today’s Montana on July 5, 1806.
    Paiute Indians of eastern California and southeastern Oregon made ear drops to remedy earaches with a decoction if the Iris roots.

     

  • Iris pumila Dwarf iris Z4-8

    Natural hybrid created this tiny, purple bearded iris blooming in early spring bearing year-long green-grey sword-shaped leaves.  Spreads to form large, tight clumps.

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    Natural hybrid created this tiny, purple bearded iris blooming in early spring bearing year-long green-grey sword-shaped leaves.  Spreads to form large, tight clumps.

     

    Size: 6-8” x spreading.
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Eastern Europe
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant

    In gardens before 1753

  • Kniphofia caulescens Red hot poker, Regal torch lily Z 5-10

    fat spikes of flowers open coral-red, turning pale lemon-yellow

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    Evergreen perennial with short, stout stems bearing grass-like broad, grey-green leaves. Blooming July to August, fat spikes of flowers open coral-red, turning pale lemon-yellow

    Size: 3’ x 2-3’
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Lesotho South Africa
    Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts hummingbirds
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Denver Botanic Garden Plant Select

    Introduced to gardens by Mr. T. Cooper about 1860.  1st described by French botanist Carrière in Revue Horticole in 1884