Re: Yellow Wood Poppies

Tom, I saw your post to Susan about the failure of your shade garden due to
deer.  I garden in deer country with no fences except a single wire electric
fence around the vegetable garden (which may soon have to be replaced with
an 8 ft high fence) and am a garden consultant whose specialty is deer and
drought resistant plants.  Hostas are impossible with deer but many other
shade plants are not--pulmonarias, Brunneras, epimediums, ferns, shade
tolerant grasses like hakonechloa, hellebores, geranium macrorrhizum,
lamiums, lamiastrums, columbine, dicentras, digitalis--these and others are
deer resistant.  Others that may not be--like trilliums, tiarellas, Asarums,
dodacatheons, hepaticas-- I spray with Deer Off;  the deer don't come around
much because they know there isn't much tasty in the area.  In spring
'Hawera' daffodils bloom.  Be of good cheer.  You can have a shade garden
with deer.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Wilson" <logicpilot@worldnet.att.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 3:37 AM
Subject: Yellow Wood Poppies


>
> Hi Susan:
>
> Enjoyed your description of your garden.  What are yellow wood poppies?
> Are they a wild flower?  How old is your garden as it sounds well
> established.  I started a shade garden in our woods, but the deer took a
> real liking to my hostas - so discontinued that garden.  Now keep
everything
> inside my fence line.
>
> It was a great day here in PA yesterday.  Picked up a few clematis - well,
> actually  more than a few for a fence and my bird post to climb up.  I'm
> really getting into clematis and actually like them more than climbing
> roses.  Doesn't seem like I have much look with roses here.
>
> Blue birds have been busy in my garden and it's great to hear the little
> wren's
> song now.  Lilacs are starting to bloom and need to dig and divide my dark
> lilacs.  I don't know the names of these lilacs as I purchased them from a
> lady who is now in her late 90's.  They are a dark purple double
flowering.
> She called them French lilacs.  Actually, I was buying from this lady for
> over 15 years and now she isn't able to do flea markets anymore.  I refer
to
> her plants and shrubs as Rose's garden.
>
> My three little greenhouses are doing well and everything is popping up
that
> I planted.
> Seems my bloodroot seeded itself around my garden and want to move and
mark
> them so I don't plant over them.
>
> Have a day off tomorrow from watching grandkids so I'm off to a few
> nurseries.
> Don - your hollyhock seeds you sent are sprouting and I'm anxious for them
> to get big enough to repot up.
>
> Well, it's getting late here in the morning and will get an early start in
> the garden today and move my daylilies which are still in pots away from
the
> wooded side of the house.  Deer just love this side of the house.
>
> Hope everyone is enjoying great weather.
> Happy Gardening!
>
> Kate
> Zionsville, PA Zone 6
>
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