What’s not to like about Camellias? They're green all year, flower for a long time when flowers are hard to find in the landscape, have a wide range of blossom types and colors, and according to many, are reasonably deer resistant.
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From a gardener’s perspective, one important advantage of a perennial plant is that it typically lives for 2 years or more, even though it may die back during the winter months. Some perennials naturally live longer than others and may live many years. If your goal is to include plants in your garden that will be long-lived, hard to kill and thrive in many conditions, then you want a “tough” perennial. Hundreds of plants have been listed as tough by different garden experts across the country with some standards being stricter than others. And plants may be included that are fine for some areas but show unwanted characteristics such as disease or invasiveness in another. So what attributes should define a perennial as tough?
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Creating a beautiful garden when deer live in your neighborhood can be a daunting task. Ways of deterring deer vary from temporary and permanent physical barriers, to motion activated devices, repellants, and even to attracting deer to an alternate area. What works at one time and at one place may not work again since deer feeding behavior can be affected by many factors, such as:
