Chatting Books Online Day 94 . Please take note the title of today’s recommended book is “50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants” , NOT “50 Beautiful Deer -PROOF Plants”. This paperback by Ruth Rogers Clausen gives you pictures , growing information , and design tips on the prettiest annuals , perennials, bulbs, and shrubs that deer don’t eat (generally).
Each plant in the book is given a deer-resistance rating between 1 -10 (actually the book does not cover anything less than a 7) . With 1 meaning Bambi finds it delicious and 10 meaning our deer friends generally leave the plant alone completely not even tasting a leaf . (a 7 they might eat the flowers but leave the foliage alone - the beasts !)
Some good choices are things like Daffodils (9-10) , beauty berry (8-10), and most herbs (9-10) but marigolds (which I have always heard were good used to distract deer and rabbit away from your good plants so they would eat that instead) are only a 7-8 so I guess it might actually work ! Though that seems awfully rude to the poor marigold - or kind to the deer depending on how you look at it.
So buy this 224 page paperback by Timber Press from us for $19.95 a copy to learn to make your garden a bit less of an outdoor salad bar for Bambi and her friends .
Day 94: 50 Beautuful Deer Resistant Plants
