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Lamium (post #11862)

SarahC on Wed, 06/14/2006 - 06:58
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I am looking for starter clumps of any and all colors/patterns of Lamium as I hear it is deer resistant, happy in shade and a good spreader.  If you want any, I can send you oodles of Japanese Pachysandra, also deer resistant, happy in shade and a good spreader.  Or, I have lots of wild daisies, which my deer don't eat.  These spread, meadow-like, by reseeding over several years and bloom nicely in the spring.  You can get more/longer flowering by deadheading (or, better, filling your house with flowers--easy to do if you have a daughter with scissor privledges!)


 


zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer

 

zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer

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by dtgardengirl in reply to SarahC [original] on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 22:11

Hi, Sarah.


I'm in Zone 5b and have mostly shady conditions and no deer - fortunately.  I just planted 'Anne Greenaway' in a container around the base of a dwarf alberta spruce.  It has variegated foliage with some yellow in it with pink flowers.  It is doing well. 


I have another that is similar only the variegation is white and the flowers pink.  It could be 'Pink Nancy', but I can't be sure. 


'White Nancy' and 'Herman's Pride' overwinter in containers well in my area.  I am also the unfortunate neighbor to inherit 'Yellow Arch Angel' Lamiastrum galeobdolon, from a neighbor's invasive spread.  It spreads like crazy and is awful if it roots in the soil, however, atop landscape fabric and mulch, it is easy to control.  It would be a good choice to cover a large area if invasiveness is not a problem.  It blooms with yellow flowers around May here.  You may want to check your State's invasive list on this one though an also their list of deer-resistant plants for additional options.


Sorry, I don't have any to trade.  It is happy in the shade, but I can't speak to its deer-resistance.  It does spread quickly.  A few plants will fill an area fairly quickly if you have to buy it.  If I'm not mistaken, it's related to the mint family.  I find it very hardy.  Your meadow sounds lovely and a daughter with sissor priviledges sounds like a big bonus.  I don't envy trying to garden with deer, but getting to see them would be delightful for me otherwise.  Good luck!

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by SarahC in reply to Anonymous [original] on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 23:22

Thank you for your reply.  I have mostly woods at my house-- a good mix, including shagbark hickory, red and sugar maples, beech, cherry and tulip poplar.  But under a fair part of the woods, the dirt is just bare and dusty, except for barberry bushes and garlic mustard.  The deer have pretty much cleaned out all the vegetation.  I am hoping that by introducing a ground cover that they won't eat, I'll be able to get other things started in among it.  The theory is micro-climate change.  If the deer just see something yucky, they will take a different route perhaps?  And a ground cover would hold moisture, trap leaves (which  now just blow onto my grass and in the pond) and perhaps even eventually shelter other growing things...  We'll see!

 


zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer

 

zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer

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by Karen in reply to Anonymous [original] on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 23:54

The deer never bothered my Lamium, but it also didn't do well in bare, dusty soil. You might try Aster divericatus, a spreading Epimedium, or planting some Hellebores and letting them seed around. Anything will probably need to be watered some the first year after planting, although the aster has been a remarkable survivor in my garden.

North Carolina - zone 7

North Carolina - zone 7

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by Celeste in reply to Anonymous [original] on Fri, 06/16/2006 - 03:35

The deer never touch any of the Lamium...but the groundhogs seem to love it! They ate my 'Pink Nancy' into oblivion! I have since found that the pepper spray that some folks posted the recipe for here works great to keep the groundhogs off the foliage...but too late for the 'Pink Nancy..." :-(

 


Southeastern West Virginia, Zone 5b

 

San Francisco, CA, Zone 10