Deer Resistant Plants

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  • Baptisia australis syn. Saphora australis False Indigo Z 3-9

    Foot-long spires of indigo blue pea-like flowers (it’s a legume) in June followed by ornamental black seed pods on this perennial that looks like a shrub. Internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013).

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    Foot-long spires of indigo blue pea-like flowers (it’s a legume) in June followed by ornamental black seed pods on this perennial that looks like a shrub. Internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013).

    Size: 3' x 3'
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil. Heat and drought tolerant.
    Native: Eastern United States, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: Food source for several caterpillars and nectar for a number of butterflies. Deer resistant.
    Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year Award, 2010. Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit

    Baptisia is Greek meaning to dye referring to use of the plant as a substitute for indigo dye. Cherokee used Baptisia australis for a number of illnesses: cease mortification, cure toothaches. Collected by John Bartram (1699-1777) plant explorer and colonial nurseryman by 1748.

  • Baptisia leucantha syn. Baptisia lacteata, Baptisia alba White Wild Indigo, Prairie wild indigo Z 3-9

    Towering creamy white flower spikes in May & June followed by dark seed pods.

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    Towering creamy white flower spikes in May & June followed by dark seed pods.

    Size: 3-5' x 2-3'
    Care: full sun to part shade in rich well-drained soil.
    Native: Wisconsin native – from Minnesota to Texas.
    Wildlife Value: food source for several caterpillars and nectar and pollen for a number of butterflies and bees. Deer resistant.

    Winnebago (HoChunk) mashed cooked root to make a poultice applied to remedy inflammation of the womb. Baptisia is Greek meaning to dye referring to use of Baptisia australis as a substitute for indigo dye. Leucantha means white flowered.

  • Brunnera macrophyllum syn. Anchusa myosotidiflora syn. Myosotis macrophylla Siberian bugloss Z 3-7

    Panicles of robin’s egg blue forget-me-not- type flowers in May and June, contrasts with its bold, heart-shaped foliage. One of the best spring flowers.

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    Panicles of robin’s egg blue forget-me-not- type flowers in May and June, contrasts with its bold, heart-shaped foliage. One of the best spring flowers.

    Size: 12" x 12"
    Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Caucasus & Siberia
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Named for Swiss botanist Samuel Brunner (1790-1844).  Collected by Russian botanist Johann Friedrich Adam (1780-1838) in Siberia c. 1806.

  • Buddleja davidii Butterfly bush, Summer lilac, do ye zui cao in China Z 5-9

    Fragrant, large, lilac to purple arching spikes from mid-summer through fall

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    Fragrant, large, lilac to purple arching spikes from mid-summer through fall

    Can not ship to: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Washington

    Size: 6' x 4'
    Care: Sun in well-drained soil.
    Native: Sichuan & Hubei provinces, China
    Wildlife Value: flowers very fragrant, attracts many butterflies, excellent cut flower
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Buddleja named to honor Reverend Adam Buddle, Vicar of Farmbridge in Essex and botanist. (1662-1715) Davidii honors Fr. Armand David a French missionary who noticed it.  Introduced to gardens by another French missionary Jean Soulie (1858-1905).  Soulie made dangerous expeditions to the Tibetan border of China and ultimately lost his life when he was tortured and shot in 1905.  This species 1st sent to the West (Kew Gardens) by Dr. Ernest Henry who found it near Ichang in 1887.  Irishman Dr. Henry worked as a customs officer in Shanghai and an assistant physician in Ichang.

  • Calamagrostis brachytricha Diamond grass, Feather reed grass Z 4-9

    Extraordinary, voluptuous plumes with pink caste, September to November, much underused.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Extraordinary, voluptuous plumes with pink caste, September to November, much underused.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 4' x 30"
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: East Asia
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Great Plants for Great Plains

    Described in 1854 in Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum.

  • Calamagrostis x acutiflora”Karl Forester” Feather reed grass

    Completely, reliably erect grass - winner perennial plant of year award 2001.

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    Completely, reliably erect grass.

    Size: 3-5' x 2'
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil. Cut back in late winter.
    Awards: Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year 2001

    This is a natural cross of Calamagrostis epigeos and Calamagrostis arundinacea, natives of Asia and Europe.  German nurseryman Karl Forester’s (1874-1970) keen eye spotted this in the Hamburg Botanic Garden.   He listed this in his nursery catalog in 1939.  Under Nazi domination he risked it all by keeping Jewish friends & workers. After WW II his nursery was the only perennial supplier in East Germany.  This grass sent from Denmark to the US in 1964.

  • Caltha palustris Marsh marigold, Kingscup Zones 3-7

    Finch yellow buttercups in early spring over round, kidney-shaped foliage

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    Finch yellow buttercups in early spring over round, kidney-shaped foliage

    Size: 12-16” x 12-16”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist, acidic soil
    Native: Canada to No. Dakota, S to TN, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees and hummingbirds for nectar. Deters deer – leaves contain mild poison.

    Caltha is Latin meaning cup and palustris means boggy or marsh. America’s 1st people used the roots medicinally to cure colds and sores and to induce vomiting.  The roots also protected against “love charms,” but I suspect vomiting might have done that. An infusion of leaves remedied constipation. Believed to have grown as long ago as the Ice Age. Introduced to Europe very early and memorialized in Chaucer’s poetry, 1549. First described by French botanist Joseph Tournefort c 1700.  Grown in the Eichstatt Garden of Prince-bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen in Bavaria c. 1600. William Robinson described them as “shin(ing) like fires in swamps and hollows.” Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Campanula rotundifolia Harebell, Bluebell of Scotland Z 3-8

    Its delicate appearance conceals its hardy constitution. Dainty bluish-lilac bells to 12” stems on bushy round ground-hugging foliage.  Blooms from June to October and occasionally November.  Perfect for rock gardens and borders.

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    Its delicate appearance conceals its hardy constitution. Dainty bluish-lilac bells to 12” stems on bushy round ground-hugging foliage.  Blooms from June to October and occasionally November.  Perfect for rock gardens and borders.

    Size: 9-12" x 12"
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe, Siberia and North America, including Wisconsin
    Wildlife Value: Walnut and deer tolerant

    Lakota ate the leaves raw and cooked and made an infusion of the roots to remedy earaches.  Sir Walter Scott immortalized the Bluebell of Scotland in Lady of the Lake.  Also a subject of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.