Deer Resistant Plants
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Digitalis purpurea Foxglove Biennial (year 1 rosette of leaves, year 2 flowers then dies) Z 4-8
Early summer pink or purple spire of spotted bells.
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Early summer pink or purple spires of spotted bells.
Size: 3-5' x 24"
Care: Part shade moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant
Native: Great Britain,west and central Europe east to Scandinavia, often escapes.Druids were fond of this because it flowered at the same time as their midsummer sacrifice. First identified in writing by German physician and botanical author Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566). Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. “Foxglove boiled in water or wine, and drunken, doth cut and consume the thick toughnesse of grosse and slimie flegme and naughty humours; it openeth also the stopping of the liver, spleene, and milt, and of other inward parts.” Gerard’s Herball, 1596.
The plant’s use as a heart stimulant was discovered in 1775 by English physician William Withering. Liberty Hyde Bailey called foxgloves: “old-fashioned and dignified… The word ‘fox’ is often said to be a corruption of ‘folk,’ meaning the ‘little folk’ or fairies.” These reputedly had the power to ward off witches and return children kidnapped by fairies. The first documented reference of American cultivation was in 1748 by Peter Kalm, a student of Linnaeus and a Swedish botanist. English merchant Peter Collinson sent a white one to John Bartram in 1735. George Washington received a gift of one to cure Dropsy.
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Digitalis thapsi Spanish foxglove Z 5-9
Spikes of purple, rose-spotted trumpets in early summer. True perennial. Although this is not as big as Digitalis purpurea, this is a perennial that grows for years.
Spikes of purple, rose-spotted trumpets in early summer. True perennial. Although this is not as big as Digitalis purpurea, this is a perennial that grows for years.
Size: 18” x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Spain & PortugalGrown in the botanical gardens of Moscow by 1752. Philip Miller (1691-1771), chief gardener at London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, received seeds from Spain and grew this by 1760’s
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Echinacea pallida Pale purple coneflower Z 4-8
Narrow, weeping pink rays in early summer surround hedgehog-like cone.
Narrow, weeping pink rays in early summer surround hedgehog-like cone.
Size: 2' x 14"
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
Native: much of continental US east of Colorado
Wildlife Value: attracts bees including bumblebees and caterpillars of some Skippers and a few moths. In fall finches eat the seeds. Deer resistant
Awards: Great Plants for Great PlainsEchinacea is Greek meaning hedgehog referring to the bristly conehead. Used to cure many ailments – arthritis, rheumatism, burns, colds, boils, fever, sore mouths, throats & gums, toothaches, snakebites, headaches, stings and distemper in horses – by several tribes – Cheyenne, Crow, Dakota and Sioux. 1st collected by Englishman Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) who searched much of No. America finding thousands of new plants.
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Echinacea paradoxa Bush’s coneflower Z 3-9
Sulfur yellow petals droop down below the bristly, brown central cone- Blooms in early summer
Sulfur yellow petals droop down below the bristly, brown central cone- Blooms in early summer
Size: 2-4' x 14"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies. In fall finches eat the seeds. Deer resistantEchinacea is Greek meaning hedgehog referring to the bristly conehead. Paradoxa because yellow petals on a Purple coneflower is a paradox. The first description of this is based on plants collected by B.F. Bush in Swan, Nichols Junction and Eagle Rock Missouri in 1878 and 1898 as well as one collected by German planthunter “Father of Texas Botany” Ferdinand Lindheimer in Texas in 1843. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol XII January to December, “Notes on Some Plants of the Southwestern United States” J.B.S. Norton 1902, p. 40.
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Echinops ritro Globe thistle Z 3-9
Mid to late summer, round, steel blue flower heads at 1st prickly then turning soft and fuzzy.
Mid to late summer, round, steel blue flower heads at 1st prickly then turning soft and fuzzy.
Size: 3-4' x 18"
Care: Sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant
Native: Southern Europe
Wildlife Value: attracts American painted lady butterflies, deer resistantThe name Echinops is Greek meaning “like a hedgehog” describing the circular spiny thistles. Introduced to England by 1570. Popular Victorian flower. Cultivated by Washington at Mount Vernon.
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Epimedium x rubrum syn. Epimedium alpinum var. rubrum Red barrenwort Z 4-8
In mid- spring small, star-shaped, rosy-red flowers dance on the ends of wiry-thin stems about one foot high. Red-flushed foliage follows the flowers, the more sun, the more red leaves. Wonderful groundcover especially in shady, well-drained soil where little else grows.
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In mid- spring small, star-shaped, rosy-red flowers dance on the ends of wiry-thin stems about one foot high. Red-flushed foliage follows the flowers, the more sun, the more red leaves. Wonderful groundcover especially in shady, well-drained soil where little else grows.
Size: 16” x 24” slow spreading
Care: Sun to shade in most any soil but best in part shade – one of most adaptable plants
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden Great Plant PickCross between Epimedium grandiflorum and Epimedium alpinum. 1st described in 1853 in Belgique Hort. iii. 33. I.
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Eryngium giganteum Miss Wilmott’s ghost SELF-SEEDING BIENNIAL Z 5-8
In summer, oval thistles top prickly green, turning steely blue, silvery, bracts – very ornamental.
In summer, oval thistles top prickly green, turning steely blue, silvery, bracts – very ornamental.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: Full sun in moist well-drained, fertile soil. Be sure to let it drop its seeds & do not weed seedlings out the following spring.
Native: Caucasus Mountains
Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Eryngium is Greek for thistle. This species introduced to England in 1820. Miss Ellen Willmott (1858-1934), a wealthy, expert, eccentric English gardener reputedly dropped seeds as she passed her neighbors’ gardens. The plants came up afterwards, her “ghosts.” Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908.
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Eupatorium sessilifolium Upland boneset Z 4-8b
Showy, flat to dome-topped, platter-like, numerous small-flower clusters of white bloom July to September
Showy, flat to dome-topped, platter-like, numerous small-flower clusters of white bloom July to September
Size: 3-5’ x 12-24”
Care: Shade to part shade in moist well-drained to dry soil (one of few dry shade flowers)
Native: Maine to Minnesota south to Kansas, east to Georgia. Wisconsin native (endangered, threatened or of special concern in 8 states – Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont & Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: nectar attracts bees and butterflies. Foliage is food for their caterpillars. Deer & rabbit resistant.English botanist Rev. John Bannister (1654-1692) collected this in colonial Virginia. He was shot and killed by misadventure while collecting plants. Described by Scottish botanist Robert Morison (1620-1683) in Historis Plantarum Univeralis Oxoniensis pars tertia (vol. 3) 98, published posthumously in 1699.
