Hi, my name is Mitch Knapp, the owner of Scenic Landscaping and Tapestry Landscape Architecture and in this video clip we are going to discuss how to pick and choose plants and shrubs that are deer resistant.
In this spot in this garden, there's a lot deer resistant plant material, starting off with Prelude, a dwarf from of Andromeda. Below it is Japanese Forest grass, Hakonechloa. Behind that right there is Variegated Boxwood and Vinca. Vinca Bowles down here, the ever blooming variety and that variety right there hasn’t been touched by the deer.
Here we have a nice combination. We have William Penn Barberry which is the massing plant in the middle. That plant gets yellow flowers in the spring and it also gets that nice copper color to starting on it for the fall. It’s loaded thorns, the deer don’t like it, kids don’t like. Below it again we have the Vinca Bowles and you could see how well they mass together. And in the spring, the purple flowers of the Vinca and the yellow flowers of the William Penn Barberry look great together.
On the corner of the house is Fastigiate Norway Spruce. Great slender growing plant, the deer don’t touch it. Going back towards the wall is common Boxwood or Sempeverins. It’s another great deer resistant plant, sturdy. And as we come around it, we actually see Winter Gem box with the lower hedge that’s up against the house. Stays a little bit lower and a little different in color and right in front of that is Bird’s Nest spruce, another great deer resistant.
And one of the best perennials that the deer don’t touch is Coreopsis Moonbeam which are the yellow flowers that you see and again bellow that is your Vinca Bowles and it’s actually just starting to put out a couple of flowers. The deer don’t touch that either.
Here we’re starting off with the lowest layer which is the Vinca Bowles. Again, right below, right after that is the Purple Yucara, that’s another great plant that deer have not been bothering yet. Behind that we actually have Goldmound Spirea, which is a profusive pink flowers the early and mid summer. And below, behind that again we actually have the Winter Gem boxwood again.
What you can see in the backdrop is actually Knockout Rose and a Japanese Shih Hiragishi, Japanese maple and the deer haven’t been bothering it, might be where it’s nestled behind the Boxwoods or basically could be the location towards the closeness to the front door that the deer haven’t been bothering the roses.
In this group and grow out by the street, there are always a lot of deer just cruising between properties. First off the tall tree right here is a Hoopsi Blue spruce, that gives great color and to the right of that we have Norway spruce which is the green one. But right below that is Globosa Blue spruce which is a dwarf blue spruce And to the left of the pillar there is actually Goldthread Cypress, that’s a great plant for the color and the brightness stays like that all season long.
Also in the backdrop here you can see Karl Forrester Feather Reed Grass. That’s a great grass, it has great seed, it has great texture but all the grasses are deer resistant so that’s a great one that we like to use for color and texture.
If we could be a further help to you, please don’t hesitate to reach us at www.ScenicLandscaping.com. Thank you very much for watching.
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