Deer Resistant Plants
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Sanguinaria canadensis f. multiplex Double-flowered bloodroot Z 4-8
Snowballs of pure white buds open to dozens of petals atop unfolding, glaucous, mitten-shaped foliage in early spring. By late spring it recedes into the earth and goes dormant. Inside its roots are same red sap as in the single form. It is sterile and can only be propagated by division. Easy to divide – dig after blooming and cut or pull apart two stems making sure both halves have roots. Then replant right away.
Ephemeral- Available for purchase in spring only
Snowballs of pure white buds open to dozens of petals atop unfolding, glaucous, mitten-shaped foliage in early spring. By late spring it recedes into the earth and goes dormant. Inside its roots are same red sap as in the single form. It is sterile and can only be propagated by division. Easy to divide – dig after blooming and cut or pull apart two stems making sure both halves have roots. Then replant right away.
LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE, LIMIT OF 1 PER CUSTOMER PLEASE.
Size: 6” x 12”
Care: part-shade to shade in moist well drained soil. Mark its location so you don’t forget in September and dig into it.
Native: mutation of native American single-form
Wildlife Value: deer resistant
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society named this one of the top plants of the last 200 years Award of Garden Merit; Great Plant Pick 2004Discovered by Guido von Webern growing in a clump of single Bloodroots in the 7 acre plot he recently purchased at the corner of North Main St and Turner Rd in Dayton OH in 1917.
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Sanguisorba menziesii Menzies’ burnet Z 4-8
Claret wands of bottle-brush-shaped blooms atop nearly leafless 4’ tall stems in summer
Claret wands of bottle-brush-shaped blooms atop nearly leafless 4’ tall stems in summer
Size: 4' x 2'
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Alaska, Canada, Pacific NW
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritSanguisorba is Latin meaning to soak up blood, for the plant’s reputed ability to clot blood. This species named for its collector Archibald Menzies (1754-1842), English physician and botanist. He found this in the Pacific NW while on Vancouver’s voyage in 1792 sailing to the Pacific Northwest, California, Alaska & Hawaii.
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Sanguisorba obtusa Japanese burnet Z 4-9
A confection - neon Barbie-doll pink dangling bottle-brush spikes- in July - August
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A confection – neon Barbie-doll pink dangling bottle-brush spikes- in July – August
Size: 2-3’ x 2’
Care: moist to moist well-drained soil in sun
Native: Honschu Japan
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies, Deer resistantSanguisorba is Latin meaning “to soak up blood”, for the plant’s reputed ability to clot blood. This species collected before 1873.
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Sanguisorba parviflora syn S tenuifolia var. parviflora, S. tenuifolia var. alba White Japanese burnet Z 4-8
Drooping white spikes (I know, drooping and spike are an oxymoron but you get the idea) atop tall stems and above narrow, dissected foliage as beautiful as the flowers. Blooming in July into September.
Drooping white spikes (I know, drooping and spike are an oxymoron but you get the idea) atop tall stems and above narrow, dissected foliage as beautiful as the flowers. Blooming in July into September.
Size: 3-5' x 18"
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan, Korea, Russia
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies, Deer resistant.Collected by 1874. (Maxim.)
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Schizachyrium scoparium syn. Andropogon scoparium Little bluestem Z 3-9
Wispy, feather-like seedheads atop blue-grey foliage that turns plum-orange-red in fall.
Wispy, feather-like seedheads atop blue-grey foliage that turns plum-orange-red in fall
Size: 18" x 12"
Care: sun in well-drained soil.
Native: all No. America, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: leaves are food for Skipper butterfly caterpillars and seeds food for songbirdsComanche used it to remedy syphilitic sores. Lakota made soft, wispy seedheads into liners for moccasins. Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) in America’s prairies c. 1790
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Scutellaria diffusa Turkish skullcap Z 5-10
Small snapdragonish violet flowers with white markings on two adjacent lower lips looking like an open book in summer along short stems. Flower clusters top tidy mounds of sage-colored, oval, hairy leaves.
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Small snapdragonish violet flowers with white markings on two adjacent lower lips looking like an open book in summer along short stems. Flower clusters top tidy mounds of sage-colored, oval, hairy leaves.
Size: 4-6” x 12”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Turkey, Lebanon and Syria
Wildlife Value: deer resistantFirst published by Swiss botanist A.P.de Candolle in Prodr. 12: 421 (1848)
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Scutellaria incana syn. Scutellaria canescens, Scutellaria villosa Downy skullcap Z 4-9
Flowers of spikes of purple-blue tubes ending in two open lips, the lower lip having a white blotch, blooming for months from July to September, if deadheaded
Flowers of spikes of purple-blue tubes ending in two open lips, the lower lip having a white blotch, blooming for months from July to September, if deadheaded
Size: 2-3’ x 12-18"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Reblooms if deadhead after 1st flush of flowers
Native: NY to WI, Georgia to TX, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Its nectar feeds small butterflies, Bumblebees and Hummingbirds.The name Scuttelaria is from Latin scutella meaning a small dish or saucer referring to the shape of the persistent calyx, a covering at the flower’s base. Incana means grey referring to the tiny hairs on stems and undersides of leaves giving a greyish color. Named by Johann Friedrich Theodor Biehler, German botanist from the plant specimens in Christian Sprengel’s (1750-1816) herbarium in 1807. How did German botanist Sprengel, who never set foot in America, come to have a pressed specimen of this native American plant? Sprengel and German botanist, minister and college president, Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) were close collaborators. Another German botanist Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815), living in Lancaster Pennsylvania, sent many American plants specimens to Willedenow. Scutellaria incana is native to and grows in what is now called Muhlenberg Meadow in Lancaster County PA. These connections make it likely that the specimen Biehler saw came from Henry Muhlenberg.
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Scutellaria resinosa syn. Scutellaria wrightii Prairie skullcap Z 4-9
Two-lipped, deep violet-blue tubes bloom from spring to fall
Two-lipped, deep violet-blue tubes bloom from spring to fall
Size: 10” x 10”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil, drought tolerant
Native: Colorado, NM, KS, Oklahoma, TX, collected on the Canadian River, tributary of Arkansas River
Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant. Nectar and pollen attract butterflies and bees.Described by botanist John Torrey in Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of NY 2: 232 (1828)
