Sunday, March 8, 2009

Berries & Deer Resistant Plants

I bought 4 new berries for my garden:
1) Brazos Blackberry (Rubus Ursinus 'Brazos')
- Flowers early spring, easily planted in hedgerows, large clusters of edible fruit that ripens in late spring.
2) Bluecrop Blueberry (Vaccinium Corymbosum 'Bluecrop'
- Dceiduous, very productive, dependable shrub with large, firm bright blue berries.
3) Northland Blueberry (Vaccinium x 'Northland')
- Deciduous, ideal for fresh eating, bears large, light blue berries with abundant white flowers.
4) Latham Red Raspberry (Rubus Idaeus 'Latham')

- This type of raspberry is disease-resistant and productive, deciduous, flavorful, aromatic, good texture, berries ripen in late June.

Berry anthocyanins as novel antioxidants in human health and disease prevention

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17533652
"Edible berries, a potential source of natural anthocyanin antioxidants, have demonstrated a broad spectrum of biomedical functions. These include cardiovascular disorders, advancing age-induced oxidative stress, inflammatory responses, and diverse degenerative diseases."


New deer resistant plants in my garden:
Dusty Miller (Centaurea Cineraria)
- Fuzzy, silver-gray leaves, bushy, compact habit, mounding annual, adds color contrast to beds.

...of course, deers don't like green onion! Other deer resistant trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and bulbs:

Trees

  • Bottlebrush Buckeye
  • Downy Serviceberry
  • Shadbush
  • Allegheny Serviceberry
  • Chinese Paper Birch
  • Heritage Birch
  • Paper Birch
  • Japanese Falsecypress
  • Japanese Cedar
  • Colorado Blue Spruce
  • Scotch Pine
  • Douglas Fir

Shrubs
  • Bald cypress (Taxodium species)
  • Bayberry (Myrica species)
  • Cinquefoil (Potentilla species)
  • False cypress (Chamaecyparis species)
  • Forsythia (Forsythia species)
  • Fringe tree (Chionanthus species)
  • Spirea (Spiraea species)
  • Spruce (Picea species)
  • White forsythia (Abelio-phyllum distichum)
  • Pawpaw
  • Barberry
  • Boxwood
  • Caryopteria
  • American Bittersweet
  • Red Osier Dogwood
  • Japanese Plum-Yew
  • Russian Olive
  • Creeping Wintergreen
  • Rose of Sharon
  • John T. Morris Holly
  • Lydia Morris Hollies
  • Leucothoe
  • European Privet
  • Japanese Andromeda
  • Common Buckthorn
  • Blueberry Elder
  • Dwarf Sweet Christmas Box

Annuals, Perennials, and Bulbs
  • Yarrow
  • Monkshood
  • Ageratum
  • Star of Persia
  • Daffodil Garlic
  • Lily Leek
  • Japanese Anemone
  • Rue Anemone
  • Common Dill
  • Columbine
  • Basket-of-Gold
  • Snapdragon
  • Rock-cress
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit
  • Rock Cress
  • Berginia
  • Plumbago
  • Snakeroot
  • Colchicum
  • Colchicum
  • Larkspur
  • Lily-of-the-valley
  • Threadleaf Coreopsis
  • Neopolitan Cyclamen
  • Bleeding Heart
  • Foxglove
  • Wood Fern
  • Purple Coneflower
  • Barrenwort
  • Euphorbia
  • Fritillary
  • Sweet Woodruff
  • Glory Lily
  • Stella de Oro Daylily
  • Dame's Rocket
  • Hyacinth
  • Deadnettle
  • Lavender
  • Toadflax
  • Sweet Alyssum
  • Rose Champion
  • Ostrich Fern
  • Daffodil
  • Flowering Tobacco
  • Royal Fern
  • Allegheny Spurge
  • Japanese Spurge
  • Oriental Poppy
  • Scented Geranium
  • Russian Sage
  • Buttercup
  • Rhubarb
  • Coneflower
  • Sage
  • Lavender Cotton
  • Squill
  • Lamb's Ears
  • Marigold
  • Common Tansy
  • Thyme
  • Foam Flower
  • Nasturtium
  • Yucca

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