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Deer resistant plants: 17 shrubs, perennials and annuals
If deer are prevalent in your area, then deer resistant plants are an essential addition to your garden. While deer are shy animals, when hungry they will often stray into gardens and eat prized plants – putting a huge dent in your backyard ideas. ‘One thing to keep in mind is that if the deer are hungry, they will eat just about anything. So even though a plant may be considered deer resistant, it may still be targeted,’ says Jo Ellen Meyers-Sharp, gardening coach and creator of Hoosiergardener, and a member of the National Garden Bureau. This makes it important to also consider how hardy your plants are, and whether they…
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Barany in the Garden: Perennials in the cold | Explore Yakima
It’s funny how a person day you can be out gardening in your favored pair of shorts, and just a number of days later you are pulling on excess layers of polar fleece. Even however I do my best to mentally put together, I’m hardly ever really prepared to see a further gardening yr appear to an finish. Over the final several weeks, I have discovered myself checking the extended weather forecast various occasions each day, exploring for borrowed time. But I’ve been a gardener long more than enough to know that Jack Frost will finally win the race. If all I grew have been domestically native plants, I’d have…