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Deer seem to avoid aromatic plants such as rosemary and lavender.
All these plants listed are suited to a warm, well-drained area that receives little if any moisture.
Calamagrostis Festuca glauca Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass) Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ (maiden grass) Stipa species (feather grass)
Achillea (yarrow) Digitalis lutea (foxglove) Echinops (globe thistle) Eryngium bourgatii Euphorbia (spurge) Leucanthemum x superbum (shasta daisies) Lychnis coronaria (rose campion) Ophiopogon planicapus ‘Nigrescens’ Origanum laevigatum ‘Hopleys’ (oregano) Phormium (New Zealand flax) Stachys Verbena bonariensis (tall verbena) Yucca (Adam’s needle)
Artemisia species (wormwood) Brachyglottis Duneden hybrids ‘Sunshine’ (a.k.a. Senecio greyi) Choisya ternata (Mexican orange) Cistus species Lavandula species (lavender) Potentilla fruticosa (cinquefoil) Rosmarinus (rosemary) Salvia officinalis (culinary sage)
Dorycnium hirsutum
Solanum crispum ‘Glasnevin’ (potato vine)
• Plant October to April when it is wet. The season’s natural moisture and cooler temperatures, provided when plants are getting established, will help them to adapt more easily.
• Use small plants with healthy, well- developed roots. Good roots help the plant to better cope with dry growing conditions.
• Plant at the bottom of a slope to take advantage of natural drainage of moisture.
• Plant near downpipes and drainage chains to take advantage of natural water runoff.
Abutilon ‘Kentish Belle’ Fuchsia magellanica (hardy fuchsia) Helleborus species Lysimachia nummularia (golden creeping Jenny)
Acanthus (bear’s breeches) Aeonium arboreum ‘Atropurpureum’ Cistus species Cynara scolymus (globe artichoke) Dierama Dorycnium hirsutum Echeveria (non-hardy perennial) Erisymum cultivars (wallflower) Eryngium (sea holly) Eryngium bourgatii Festuca glauca Lavatera (mallow) Ophiopogon planicapus ‘Nigrescens’ Phlomis italica (Jerusalem sage) and Phlomis russeliana Phlox species Stachys Dwarf apple trees – Gravenstein, Lady Apple, Belle du Boskop (which need pollinators); Lord Lambourne (self-fertile)