It is hard to say whether the deer will eat it all. If it is very fragrant, they may leave it alone. I know they love bulbs like tulips, grape hyacinths and the roses (leaves and flowers) I have but they leave the lilac and lavender alone. Ornamental cedars are another favourite of theirs. Long time ago, we had renters in our house and they planted wildflowers in the yard and the vacant lot next door. It looked very nice until the Scottish broom took over.
fishingpol In the shadier areas, have you thought of planting naturalizing daffodils for the spring? They would come up, bloom and then you could cut the grass after they have finished.
We are looking for flowers all through the summer into the fall. We have a variety of birds here, so I was thinking tall grass and wildflowers will give opportunities for hummingbirds and other birds. I will build a bluebird box this weekend and see if I can get a nesting pair to stop in and stay.
Bees love catnip flowers, and goldfinches love catnip seeds. It self seeds, without being invasive. The flowers aren't spectacular, just little white things.
Here is the area I'm going to let grow natural and see what happens. There are I guess buttercups growing in the grass. It may be a good undisturbed place for the bluebirds. Pretty much filtered sun during the day. The wetlands are in the back rear corner. This was last evenings pic.
My neighbor at the last house grew catnip for his indoor cats. Once the plants took, the loose neighborhood cats pretty much rolled themselves all over the plants and ended that.
This picture was taken of 5/21/19 and you can see in the background the white phlox is getting ready to bloom and the lavender phlox is just starting to trail down the rock wall. This bunch is along the rock wall beside the driveway Here is the white phlox this morning And this is the phlox in the flower bed under the living room bay window just coming into its own today
Whenever I have had lupines, they seem to attract aphids. I have memories of Mom throwing the soapy washing machine water over her bed of lupines to get rid of the aphids.
I looked at lupines, but they only had pink ones at the store. I'd like purple. We have neem oil spray for aphids. The area is wet in that pic. Creeping phlox is a definite contender around the house foundation. Thank you for the suggestions.
I love Lupine I first collected seed in 2010 while in Alaska. First year I planted in the spring and they didn't come up. Planted the rest of my seeds the following spring. Still no Lupine. Been late at the semi-local big nursery on getting plants. They are no longer are listing them on their site. I later found that they had to go through a freezing cycle. The outer coating also needs roughed up, stratified if I remember their term correctly, with some thing like sand paper or tumbling in sand. I will be in Alaska this year the same time of year that I collected seeds before. I will try and collect some. If I don't get any I will order seeds on the net. Love Love the Lupine Wild Lupine is all but non existent in Ohio. There was a butterfly in Ohio now very rare in the wild, before the Lupine went away that only eats or collect nectar from Lupine. The Toledo Zoo has a collection of them. I once researched and was thinking about trying to get some of them butterflies if I got Lupine established.
Lupines are blooming now along side of the road. They are mainly the purple ones but every once in awhile you see a white or yellow one.
The three vacant lots next door have had no activity on them for several years. As a result the Scottish broom has taken hold. Looks nice but it is very invasive. Provides lots of seeds for the birds come the end of summer. campinspecter's wall of cedar firewood will help prevent it spreading into the top part of our yard.
Wow, that is quite a coverage. I imagine the native plants are overtaken. Here the bittersweet is the worst, followed by grapes and virginia creeper. In our are Japanese knotweed and Russian olive are getting bad. Our native plate are sadly being overrun.
Two strikeouts on lupines at the garden centers today. I did get morning glories for a sapling trellis that will be going up. I want to start building the horse fly trap soon.
fishingpol , totally different part of the country and elevation etc, our previous home was in deer territory, the ones that did best were bearded iris, lilac (as WW mentioned), wild rose, and they pretty much left the old fashioned garden phlox alone (not creeping, but GARDEN which I was told is not sold much now because not resistant to mold/mildew which never happened where we lived). That said during a 10 year unprecidented drought, they at all of the above, but I'm told it was because they were desperate. I tried different things for 6 years, deer liked most of them. We put in a front yard fence, then the bunnies ate them I hope one or more of your wildflower mixes takes and stays
