Deer Resistant Plants
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Adiantum aleuticum Western Maidenhair Fern Z 3-9
Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
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Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
Size: 30” x 30”
Care: shade in moist, well-drained soil
Native: East and west of the Cascade Mountains and is also found scattered along the eastern seaboard
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant
Awards: Elisabeth C Miller Great Plant Pick, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritAccording to folklore if a girl can hold the stem without causing the leaves to tremble, then she was chaste.
Natives used the stems in basketry designs and made tea from the leaves to use as a hair wash. Quinault burnt the leaves and rubbed ashes in their hair to make it long, shiny and black. California Natives used the stems for pierced earrings, inserting them into the ear lobe to keep the hole from closing. They chewed the leaves to remedy internal wounds, chest pain, or stomach trouble and made a cough syrup from it. -
Aethionema grandiflorum Persian stonecress Z 5-8
Bushy, low growing perennial with blue-green leaves and spikes of fragrant pink to lavender flowers, June-July
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Bushy, low growing perennial with blue-green leaves and spikes of fragrant pink to lavender flowers, June-July
Size: 6-12” x 12-18”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Iran, Iraq, Caucasus, Turkey
Wildlife Value: attracts honeybees & other pollinators, Deer & Rabbit resistant.
Awards: Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural SocietyShort-lived perennial, but self-seeds where happy. Described in 1849 by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker.
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Agastache aurantiaca Navajo sunset Z 5-9
Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage
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Agastache aurantiaca Navajo sunset Z 5-9
Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliageSize: 12-18” x 24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Western US
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds. Deer and rabbit resistantPublished in American Midland Naturalist 1945.
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Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop
Showy blue spikes from July to September, fragrant
Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop Z 4-8
Showy purple spikes from July to September, fragrantSize: 3-5' x 12"
Care: Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil, drought tolerant & deer resistant
Native: North America, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesThe name Agastache is from Greek agan and stachys meaning much like an ear of wheat referring to the shape of the flower spike. Anise hyssop leaves were used by American Indians of the Missouri River region to make tea and as a sweetener in cooking. The Cheyenne used it to relieve chest pain due to coughing or to a dispirited heart. Listed hyssop as an aromatic herb in McMahon’s 1805 book.
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Ajuga genevensis Geneva Bugle Z 4-9
True blue 6” spikes in spring and early summer
Ajuga genevensis Geneva Bugle Z 4-9
True blue 6” spikes in spring and early summer. Great groundcover.Size: 6” x 12”
Care: full sun to shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Tolerates foot traffic. Deer and rabbit resistant.William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial garden, called this “among the best.” (1933). In gardens before 1753.
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Allium cernuum Nodding onion Z 4-8
Umbels of arching stems with nodding bells of lilac shading to pink
Allium cernuum Nodding onion Z 4-8
Umbels of arching stems with nodding bells of lilac shading to pink, June – July.Size: 12”-18”x 3-6”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, Deer resistant
Native: Canada to Mexico, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesCernuum is Latin meaning “nodding.” Many groups of 1st Americans ate the bulbs raw, roasted or dried for winter storage or as flavoring for soups and gravies. Cherokee used this plant medicinally to cure colds, hives, colic, “gravel & dropsy,” liver ailments, sore throats, “phthisic,” and feet in “nervous fever.” Those in the Isleta Pueblo were not quite as creative as the Cherokee and used this only for sore throats and infections. Collected for garden cultivation by 1834.
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Allium christophii syn. Allium albopilosum Star of Persia, Persian onion Z 4-8
Awesome purple globe-shaped flowers nearly a foot across in late spring to early summer. Ephemeral. Flowerhead make stunning years long dried arrangements
Available for purchase in Spring only
Awesome purple globe-shaped flowers nearly a foot across in late spring to early summer. Ephemeral. Flowerhead make stunning years long dried arrangements
Size: 1-2’ x 1’
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Iran and Turkey
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Walnut tolerant
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society award of Garden MeritNamed Star of Persia for the 100 star shaped flowers that make up each flower head.
Described by German botanist and plant explorer Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809-1889) in 1884. He worked at botanic gardens and universities in Kiev and St. Petersburg for 40 years. -
Allium karataviense Turkestan onion, Kara Tau garlic Z 5-9
Basal rosette of wide, glaucous, arching leaves from which a soft-ball sized soft pink to white flower emerges in early summer, ephemeral
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Available for purchase in spring only
Basal rosette of wide, glaucous, arching leaves from which a soft-ball sized soft pink to white flower emerges in early summer, ephemeral
Size: 9” x 6”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: central Asia – the Stans (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan).
Wildlife Value: value: resistant to rabbits & deer. Attracts bees and butterflies
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden Great Plant Pick, Royal Botanic Garden Award of Garden Merit1st described in 1875 by German botanist Eduard August von Regel (1815-1892) who served as the Director of the Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg Russia
