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Bulbs deer (and other critters) don’t like
A helpful AP article by Dean Fosdick reminds me as I prepare my fall bulb order that my garden is plagued by deer, chipmunks, voles and other critters. So while I may leave the fancy tulips to those not-so-blessed with wildlife, I have no shortage of flower-bulb choices.
The Chicago Botanical Garden has this helpful list of wildlife resistant bulbs. Pictures of some of my favorites follow.
- Allium
- Anemone
- Arum italicum
- Bulbocodium vernum
- Chionodoxa
- Colchicum
- Dichelostemma
- Fritillaria
- Galanthus
- Geranium tuberosum
- Hyacinthoides
- Ipheion
- Leucojum
- Muscari
- Nectaroscordum siculum (pictured)
- Narcissus
- Ornithogalum
- Scilla
Nectaroscordum
Narcissus of all kinds. (I’m partial to these thalia daffs)
Scilla
Colchicum (fall flowering)
Leucojum
Fritillaria
Galanthus
Allium (with euphorbia)
Chionodoxa
Moody grasses
Joe-Pye
This afternoon, my garden buddy Lynn from Sin City to Slaterville stopped by for some Joe-Pye weed (or as she prefers boneset) to plant in her ditch.
I’m more than happy to share. It’s not like it’s scarce around here. In fact, the plant defines this place with it’s wet soils along the wetland. I’ve got several cultivars planted around the place. But I’m fond of the wild…
Bowed by the rain, it bounced back just fine.
Plenty o’Joe-Pye out into the wetland.
Eupatorium and Solidago go great together.
Saturday walk-around
Just some pix from the weekend …
I returned the veggie garden to respectability. It had really gotten out of hand. But now the oats and peas I put on the garlic beds two or three weeks ago look great and I cleaned up some bed that were in ‘weed cover crop’ mode and planted some fall greens. Not too shabby.
Grass border coming into its own.
Turtleheads (Chelone obliqua) and more in the wet patch.
Weird leaflet on a young locust tree.
Lots of yellow flower (again, still). Helianthus …
Rudbeckia …
Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Hortensia’ (Outhouse Plant, Golden Glow). The deer hit them pretty hard this year, for the first time. But they still look OK.
