Deer resistant AND shade tolerant
chateauclubcrest
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Need a gameplan: Dry Shade, Deer Resistant Spring Bulbs + perenn
Comments (5)DON'T PLANT IPHEION!!! They will take over your yard like an invasive weed spreading via seeds that scatter EVERYWHERE. I planted a few (2-3) here and there in the front yard and we now have large patches of them yards away where I never even planted them, and coming up in between other plants. I've spent HOURS sifting HUNDREDS of them out of a small square-foot area of soil, only to have a new patch of them the next season. I'm starting to find them in the back yard now. They are my worse gardening mistake, ever! Some people will tell you they weren't invasive in their yard. But if they aren't invasive at all, they wouldn't have multiplied like rabbits in mine, would they? Don't take a chance with them, you might be one of the unlucky ones like me. DON'T PLANT IPHEION!! Consider yourself warned......... Jen...See Moredeer resistant/drought tolerant groundcover for part sun/shade
Comments (11)Stachys byzantina 'Helen von Stein' (big ears) is my favorite and it has never bloomed. The smaller ones bloom and then they (to me) are a mess to deadhead and keep neat looking compared to big ears. Here's one of mine with a rose campion pretending to bloom out of it. :-) Thyme is also good. If you like lime/bright, the spirea 'Limemound' is a great little thing when used as a companion with plants of blue foliage/blooms. I have it beside a nepeta. I wish I could send you some of my creeping perennial heliotrope 'Azure Skies' as it blooms not stop from spring until frost. A great groundcover that resembles verbena. Totally deer and rabbit proof. It even floats across my stream and can take full sun or partial shade. A few plants and you can keep taking cuttings to create as much as you want....See MoreDeer resistant perennials for dry(ish) open shade
Comments (9)I've tried Astilbe chinensis which is more drough resistant than A. arendsii with no success, so ligularias wouldn't stand a minimal chance there. Now when you mention it, I recall planting L.przhewalskii (the most tough of all of them) there and moving it somewhere else in a couple of months. Yes, it's shady, but shade is open, not a dark-dark. Place is under canopies of very tall limbed up maples, oaks and ashes. Buddleia davidii less likely will bloom there and I don't think it's too attractive not in a bloom, but you reminded me about my B. alternifolia which need a better place than where it is and might even bloom there given her spring bloom time. Not very attractive plant, though....See Moredeer resistant shade plants, groundcovers, shrubs & flowers
Comments (14)Hmm, doesn't look like my previous post got posted, so here goes. I'm also in NJ and we've been in our house for 2 1/2 years. Half our front yard and another garden bed are filled with pachysandra because they are under the tall pine trees we have here. They spread faster than we want them to. In fact, without us even realizing it, they created their own soil out of fallen leaves and spread over our driveway about 18 inches since we've been here. It was like a thick carpet we had to cut through and roll up to move it back into the garden bed again. It is beautiful to look at, but very difficult to get rid of. Their roots are very thick and everywhere. If however, you would like more of it, you are more than welcome to come and dig some up in our yard. We have lots and lots to share....See Morechateauclubcrest
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