An ideal way to add color to a late fall/early winter garden is to plant shrubs that have berries. In addition to adding another season of interest and color, you’ll also find your garden is alive with a variety of birds and small animals. You can find berries in a wide array of colors. Just keep in [...]
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Adding Color with Berries
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening Inspiration, Natives, Plant Possibilities, tagged american cranberrybush, Aronia, cotoneaster, red Chokeberry, shrubs with berries, viburnum trilobum on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Deer-Resistant Bulbs
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening Inspiration, Plant Swap on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For gardeners like me who have deer routinely browsing virtually every plant in their garden, fall can be a particularly disheartening season. While deer-free gardeners are happily planning for all the colorful spring-flowering bulbs they will plant in their gardens, we are left out in the cold with a severe case of bulb-envy. Until now. [...]
Deer Repellent Effectiveness
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, Zone 6 gardening on September 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Do deer repellents really work? I constantly ask myself that question since, in my garden here in southwestern Connecticut (zone 6), what works one day doesn’t seem to work the next. It can be exceedingly frustrating to try and protect ‘deer-resistant’ plants, I layer deer repellents, spray accordingly to the manufacturer’s guidelines and even try [...]
Notes from my Test Garden…Chasmanthium latifolium
Posted in Deer-resistant, Natives, Test Garden on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Chasmanthium latifolium. If you’ve ever heard of it, you probably know it by one of its many common names…Northern sea oats, quaking oats, Indian wood oats or flathead oats. I call it Northern Sea Oats and I was first drawn to this plant because of its unique sea heads. When I started looking into it’s site [...]
Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’: A Pollinator’s Paradise
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening Inspiration, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening on August 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
August can be a difficult time in many perennial gardens, the weather is hot, the rain is scarce and many early-blooming perennials, frankly, do not look their best. One of the stars of my August garden is Agastache (common names are Anise Hyssop or Hummingbird Mint). Not only does Agastache still look good, it is [...]
Deer-Proofing: The Good, The Bad & The Stinky
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut on August 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’m not sure if those gardeners who never have to worry about deer in their gardens can fully appreciate what goes into the constant battle with deer when you do have to contend with their presence in your garden. Or how frustrating, and almost comical, it can be to see the damage that can be done by [...]
Deer-Resistant Perennials
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut on July 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Here in southwestern Connecticut, I wage a constant battle with deer in my garden. Sometimes I feel like no matter what I plant, the deer eat it. Like many gardeners who battle some type of pest in their garden it can seem like the pest in question – in my case, deer – wait and [...]
Deer-Resistant* Annuals
Posted in Deer-resistant, Edibles, Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening on June 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
June is the ideal time here in southwestern CT (zone 6) to plant annuals to fill in some empty spots in your beds and borders. If, like me, you garden in an area with a heavy deer population, you need to choose your annuals carefully. Even though annuals last for only one growing season, unlike [...]
Welcome To My Test Garden
Posted in Deer-resistant, Garden Coaching, Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, Natives, Test Garden, Zone 6 gardening on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Several years ago I decided to use parts of my garden as a ‘test garden’ so I could see how plants behaved under different growing conditions (can plants labeled as full sun actually thrive in part shade), to see how placement of plants affects deer browsing (I’m beginning to think there is something to the [...]
Happy GOOPs Day!
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, GOOPS (gardening Oops!), Landscape Design, Zone 6 gardening on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hosta – My first GOOP! Every gardener makes mistakes. Mistakes are an integral part of gardening and even the most seasoned gardeners still make them. The best we can hope for is that we learn as we grow as gardeners and move on to making different mistakes instead of repeating the same old ones. Joene, of [...]
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