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chris cromeens

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Location: north texas 7b now 8a

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posted 11 years ago

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Planning on a clay seed ball, guerilla herb garden. Need suggestions on deer resistant plants gotta be hardy. wormwood is in there but I need others even if they can only be used for nurse plants

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Steve Flanagan

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Location: North Fork, CA. USDA Zone 9a, Heat Zone 8, 37 degrees North, Sunset 7/9, elevation 2600 feet

posted 10 years ago

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I'm interested in hearing some suggestions too.

Judith Browning

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Location: Ozarks zone 7 alluvial,black,deep clay/loam with few rocks, wonderful creek bottom!

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posted 10 years ago

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I don't know about 'nurse plants' but a lot of herbs seem to be deer resistant in my experience...greek oregano, garden thyme, lavender, rosemary, cilantro, lemon balm, mints, anise hyssop, feverfew, catnip, tansey, and more have survived the white tailed deer in our area and have low water needs. Most of these are from plant exchange divisions...the oregano, lavender, cilantro, feverfew and anise hyssop are from seed. I like your idea.

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Jordan Lowery

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posted 10 years ago

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Nurse plants for what? What type, Small, medium, large, thorny, groundcover?

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Judith Browning

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Jordan Lowery wrote:Nurse plants for what? What type, Small, medium, large, thorny, groundcover?

I thought what was meant was nurse plants for the herbs but deer resistant varieties of both...after reading the title and post together. Maybe it's already happened since the post was from May....I wonder if it worked?

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