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The harebell are my favorite
So many purty flowers Hazel
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I seemed to have missed this thread the first time around.
You sure so have some pretty wildflowers down there .....but you know, of course, that the Honor Guard is my absolute favourite. Is your knapweed the invasive kind? |
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Love your last bunch of pics! It seems like we share quite a few. Love them as long as they stay out of my yards. Beautiful pics as usual.
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WOW Hazel,all those beautiful wild-flowers Mother Nature is definitely the best gardener of all and you don't need to do anything,just enjoy
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I love the harebell, too. I'm thinking of buying a flat of them to put out in my front yard...I gotta find out if deer like them, though. The local herd will be taste-testing anything I put out there...
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Not sure if the knapweed is invasive or not. It's scattered out along the road but doesn't seem exceptionally overwhelming. I never knew what it was before I finally identified it the night I took the picture. Quote:
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I can't take any credit for all the pretty flowers...they grow much better without hazel's moldy thumb, than with it!
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Here ya' go hazel. Knapweed seems to be deer resistant.
http://www.gardenerscorner.org/subject051644.htm My copy of the _Gardener's Desk Reference_ list the following as being deer resistant: yarrow, baneberry, monkshood, agave, flossflower, alliums, aloe, anemone, snapdragon, artemesia, butterfly weed, false indigo, marigold, knapweed, lily of the valley, datura, chrysanthemum, foxglove, globe thistle, joe-pie weed, spurge, ferns, blanketflower, heliotrope, lantana, lavender, snowflake, lupine, mints, bee balm, forget-me-not, daffodil, primrose, poppy, russian sage, flax, feverfew, yucca, hardy fuschia, zinnia, goutweed, bugleweed, strawberry tree, barberry, boxwood, Mexican orange, rock rose, smokebush, hawthorn, Russian olive, beech, inkberry, jasmine, mountain laurel, Japanese kerria, bayberry, oleander, spruce, pine, rosemary, germander, and periwinkle. It also has a list of plants deer like. |
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The only knapweed I've seen growing here is alien. I'm looking for natives.
Butterfly weed, false indigo, Joe-Pye-weed, lupine, bee balm, and primrose! I can get those! Harebell is also supposed to be untasty to deer. I've heard that coneflowers are only occasionally nibbled by deer. Anyone know if that's true? I'm hoping to transfer some seed from the kennel garden coneflowers to the front yard this fall
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I am looking at my encyclopedia right now. It doesn't say coneflower at all in the deer resistant plants. But I have had mine planted for three or four years and the deer have never touched them. In fact they haven't touched any of the plants I have. They love the apple trees though. Maybe that's what you need to plant. They come right onto the side yard and eat the apples off the ground.
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Our deer love to munch mushrooms and eat acorns while watching the dogs carry on on the other side of the fence. You know: the whole "dinner and a movie" thing...
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Your mystery plant here:
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This is the invasive knapweed we get in B.C. ......
http://www.invasiveplantcouncilbc.ca...otted-knapweed |
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Oh, crap! You're right! That's spotted knapweed, so I'll have to give the county a call. They seem to have missed that stretch of road. Spotted knapweed is an invasive variety that they poison to preserve the Karner Blue Butterfly habitat--that and the leafy spurge are the two main invasives that they come out to treat each year. I should have recognized it by the leaves... My bad...
And growler, I think you nailed the mystery plant. I just looked up meadowsweet in my book and it's spot on! Thanks! Frenchy, I've thought about that gate...and armed guardsmen...many times! Oh, to win a huge lottery and buy a township!
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