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Re: Deer Problems

> My apologies if you have all answered this many times before.  
> 
> I'm a new gardener living on an island off the coast of Maine which makes
> the zone 5 rather than 4.  The biggest problem we have is an overpopulation
> of deer with voracious appetites and most of my neighors have given up
> gardening.  About the only plants and shrubs I've found that are 100% safe
> from the deer are barberry (all types), spirea and siberian iris.    
> 
> Since I don't care to spray Ropel every morning, does anyone have any other
> suggestions for plants that the deer won't eat.

Hi Jackie,

   Here's something that I wrote up a long time ago that I was thrilled
   to find (unbeknownst to me) on the web at:

      http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/agriculture/faqs/1/msg00015.html

   Lots of other goodies there too, including someone else's list.  Here's
   the message:

      Newsgroups: rec.gardens
      From: cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher  Lindsey)
      Subject: Re: Question on deer proof plants
      Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 06:45:30 GMT

        Here's a list of plants that deer don't like that I posted a while
        back:

           Acanthus                        Kniphofia
           Aconitum                        Leucojum
           Agave                           Lirioe
           Allium                          Lychnis coronaria
           Amaryllis                       Melianthus
           Artemisia                       Melissa
           Arum                            Melittis
           Arundo                          Mentha
           Astilbe                         Mirabilis
           Campanula                       Myosotis
           Carex                           Nepeta
           Centaurea                       Origanum
           Ceratostigma                    Paeonia
           Chrysanthemum maximum           Papaver
           Cortaderia                      Phormium
           Crinum                          Polygonatum
           Crocosmia                       Potentilla
           Dicentra                        Pulmonaria
           Digitalis                       Romneya
           Epimedium                       Rudbeckia
           Euphorbia                       Saliva
           Ferns                           Satureja
           Festuca glauca                  Scabiosa
           Filipendula                     Sisyrinchium
           Gaillardia                      Tellima
           Geranium                        Thalictrum
           Gerbera                         Tiarella
           Gunnera                         Trillium
           Helianthus                      Veratrum
           Helichrysum                     Vinca
           Hosta                           Iris

        Hope it helps!

     Chris

     Christopher Lindsey -- Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Illinois

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Chris
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