Francesca Rheannon talks with landscape architect and activist Edwina von Gal at her magnificent gardens in East Hampton, New York.
Edwina is a proponent of planting native shrubs and an opponent of the use of pesticides which kill vital bees and insects.
They talked about deer-resistant plants.
Here is a list of deer-proof or deer-resistant plants compiled by Edwina von Gal:
- Carex pennsylvanica: Pennsylvania sedge (native)
- Pachysandra procumbens: Allegheny Spurge (native)
- Hakanechloa macra: Japanese grass
- Petacites japonica: butter burr
- Lindera benzoin: Northern Spice Bush (native shrub, great for pollinators, blooms in Feb/March)
- Hamamalia virginia: (not deer proof) spring witch hazel (late season bloom)
- Leucothoe axillaris — Prefers a bit of shade; evergreen
- sweet alyssum
- Aconitum napellus (not native): Monkshood
- Actaea racemosa: black cohosh (native)
- Amsonia hubrichtii: Bluestar (native)
- ground covers: bee balms, mountain mints, pachera, chrisogonum (Yellow Star), mahonia
- flowering trees: Carolina silver bell; Carolina all spice, calalanthus
- hellebore (not native) good for pollinators
- American dogwood, American fringe tree
- magnolia virginiana: swamp magnolia (blooms all summer)
