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Deer-Resistant Perennials Part 3


  • Artemisia spp. - Any of the aromatic artemisias are deer-resistant. Try 'Valerie Finnis' or abrotana for taller varieties. For groundcover, try 'Silver Brocade' or 'Silver Mound'. The herbs Southernwood and Wormwood are also excellent. If you live in a desert area in North America, you will probably be familiar with Sagebrush. This is a type of Artemisia.
  • Aurinia saxatilis - Basket of Gold Alyssum is a standby in rock gardens. They form sulfur-yellow blooms in spring and hang over walls and rockeries.
  • Baptisia australis - False Indigo forms a beautiful bush of blue flowers to 3 feet tall in summer.
  • Calamintha - Calamint is a mint-like plant but is better because it doesn't get rust and also doesn't spread madly. They are available in a nice variegated variety.
  • Centaurea montana - This perennial Bachelors Buttons grow to 2' with oval dark green leaves and woolly stems. Flowers are blue with frilly petals in late spring and early summer, with a delicious fragrance.
  • Cerastium - Snow-in-summer is another rockery perennial. They bloom in late-spring and keep their nice grey leaves year-round.
  • Chamaemelum nobile - Creeping Chamomile forms a nice lawn-substitute with white daisy flowers in spring and summer.
  • Conradia canescens - The Cumberland Rosemary has grey-green foliage with a camphor scent. Has light pink flowers throughout summer and prefers sandy acidic soil, much like its native habit under pines.
  • Delosperma cooperi - The Ice Plant is so low-growing that deer can't get at them properly. They hug the ground in full sun and well-drained soil and form bright yellow daisy flowers in summer.
  • Dianthus - These comprise rockery pinks, maiden pinks and carnations. In the case of large-flowered taller growing carnations, they will eat the flowers, but not harm the plant. They also love sweet-williams, which are also Dianthus species.
  • Eryngium spp - Sea Holly and it's relatives comprise a group of plants with sharp prickles and not much to offer deer culinarily. They are good in bright sun and well-drained soil. Watering in summer will produce more flowers.
  • Geranium macrorrhizum - The Bigroot Cranesbill is one geranium with a very strong smell. They produces many flowers in pink or white in early summer, and sparse flushes through summer into fall if deadheaded. It would be worth trying other aromatic Geranium species such as G. Cantrabrigiense 'Biocovo'.
  • Glaucium flavum - This is a lovely plant with a rosette of gray hairy leaves and yellow poppy like flowers early summer. Full sun and well drained
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