Re: New approach

I was going to suggest English lavender since it's reputed deer hate it, but
I have never heard of them eating Artemisia!   That is highly unual I must
say.  I've got some lemon balm and daylilies that could be divided and sent
your way, but I know they love daylilies unfortunately.

On 7/22/07, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Since the deer have totally wiped me out this summer - worse than
> ever in all the years we've been here - I was thinking of some way to
> fill in the blank spaces for the rest of the season.  Everything I have
> done in past years has failed this year.  Things that the deer usually
> don't touch, like Monarda, they have mowed down.  Somehow they
> got into my one protected bed of hostas and totally demolished them.
> They have eaten the two large old hibiscus bushes on the front stoop,
> and topped a large pot of Achimenes about to burst into bloom.  They
> ate a large pot of 'Red Flash' Caladiums in my breezeway, where they
> have not come before, and also took the top out of a 'Silver Mound'
> Artemisia in another breezeway pot.  They have never touched the
> Artemisias before.  They even nibbled at a pot of 'Lemon Gem'
> Marigolds.  So I figured that if I put out annuals, that would just be
> asking them back for dessert.  But DH has invited a lot of people
> here for next weekend, so I needed to do something fast.
> This week we went to a meeting at the Orange County (NY)
> Arboretum.  This is a new enterprise - just about 5 years old - that
> we had been hearing good things about.  We were extremely well
> impressed with the facility and the progress that has been made in
> just five years.  On the way out, the director said "By the way, there
> are some plants left from an earlier sale.  Take a look at them."
> There were quite a few conventional things like Impatiens, but my
> eye fell on a bunch of flats of Tricolor Sage.  They were nice 4" pots,
> well filled out.  I have several growing in large pots with Bergartten
> Sage and Purple Sage - makes a nice looking pot - but I thought I
> might add another, so picked one up, expecting to pay a couple of
> dollars for it.  When they said fifty cents, I couldn't resist, so I
> brought home two flats of a dozen plants each for $12.00.  What
> a bargain!  Now I have filled in one entire bed and blank spaces in
> another, plus a couple more pots where the deer had eaten what
> had been originally placed there.  Of course they may suddenly
> develop a taste for sage, but they have never eaten it before.  Keep
> your fingers crossed for me that this works and I have deer-resistant
> beds (nothing is deer-proof).
> Auralie
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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