Deer Resistant Plants
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Helleborus niger Christmas rose, Black hellebore Z 5-8 POISON
Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.
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Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.
Size: 12-20” x 12”
Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: rocky places in Europe
Awards: Received Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food. This species is ancient – known as long ago as 300 BC in Greece where it “purged and cured the mad or melancholicke daughters of Praetus with the roots thereof.” (Parkinson, 1629) Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. In Middle Ages petals thrown on floor to drive out evil and ward off power of witches. English herbalist John Gerard (1545-1612) strangely recommended it for curing poisoned animals. Sorcerers made themselves invisible by tossing the powdered plant in the air.
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Helleborus orientalis Lenten rose Z 4-9 POISON
Creamy white to pink, waxy saucer-shaped flowers with glowing yellow stamens flowering in early spring with waxy, thick leaves.
Creamy white to pink, waxy saucer-shaped flowers with glowing yellow stamens flowering in early spring with waxy, thick leaves.
Size: 12” x 12”
Care: moist humusy soil in part shade.
Native: Asia Minor
Wildlife Value: its flowers produce large amounts of nectar and pollen feeding many bees, moths, butterflies, and some birds in early spring when few other plants in flower. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food. This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. This species found in India in 1839. Favorite plant of Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial border, (1848-1931) planted with Daphne shrubs and Dog tooth violet in her personal garden at Munstead Wood.
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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.
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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.
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 MountainsGenus 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.
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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 hummingbirdsFirst 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.
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Horminum pyrenaicum Dragonmouth, Pyrenean Dead-nettle Z 5-9
Deep purple salvia-like blooms in April to May above rosettes of wide, flat leaves
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.
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Hylotelephium herbstsfreude syn Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ Z 4-9
Classic, large flat flower heads turn from green to rose
Classic, large flat flower heads turn from green to rose blooming in September and October. A staple for autumn in the garden.
Size: 30” x 12”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: Attracts many bees and butterflies. Black walnut tolerant, deer resistant.
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Autumn Joy introduced to gardens before 1920 by the George Arends Nursery in Ronsdorf, Germany.
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Hylotelephium sieboldii syn Sedum sieboldii, October Daphne Z 3-9
Fleshy gray-green foliage edged with pink encircles the prostrate stems, flowering strawberry pink in fall. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or anyplace with drought.
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Fleshy gray-green foliage edged with pink encircles the prostrate stems, flowering strawberry pink in fall. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or anyplace with drought.
Size: 4" x 8"
Care: full sun in moderately fertile, well-drained soil.
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: Drought tolerant and deer resistant.
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PickSedum means “plant that sits.” “Live forever” is an ancient Greek name for sedums. The Roman Pliny claimed that sedum’s juice treated wounds. In the 1500’s English herbalist Gerard called sedums “very full of life,” referring to succulent’s quality of being very easy to grow. This species named for its discoverer, Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold (1791-1866). Von Siebold, a German doctor, worked for the Dutch East India Company as its resident physician on Deshima Island, off the coast of Japan. He boldly became too knowledgeable about Japanese affairs and was imprisoned by the Japanese in 1826 and then banished in 1828. When he left he carried nearly 500 plants with him to Europe. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial border, described Sedum sieboldii as beautiful. He advised gardeners to grow it “in strong loam and mortar rubble in fully exposed positions (and use it as) an excellent plant for vases in summer.”
