{"id":5371,"date":"2015-01-28T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5371"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T23:33:53","slug":"deer-in-my-garden-volume-2-groundcovers-edgers","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/deer-in-my-garden-volume-2-groundcovers-edgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer in My Garden, Volume 2: Groundcovers &#038; Edgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/CS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"323\" \/>Grass Valley, California is on the outer rim of our region, but the resident gardening columnist Carolyn Singer is worth knowing about, especially for gardeners in the foothills of the Cascades.\u00a0 She is very experienced with the ravages of deer, and address this concern in two books.\u00a0 \u201cDeer in My Garden\u201d (2006), was largely written while the author spent the summer of 2005 in Seattle and focuses on perennials and subshrubs.\u00a0 \u201cDeer in My Garden: Volume 2\u201d (2008) considers the impact on groundcovers and garden edge plants.<\/p>\n<p>Both books are part of \u201cThe Yucky Flower Series,\u201d honoring the advice of her then 3-year-old grandson: \u201cThe deer wouldn\u2019t eat yucky flowers!\u201d\u00a0 So that is what she planted.\u00a0 Her deer-resistant recommendations are based on her own experience, or those of gardeners who grew trial plants for her, knowing that in the interest of science (or cervid consumer selection), the trial plants might disappear.<\/p>\n<p>While yucky to deer, the selected plants are all quite lovely to gardeners and would make many other recommended plant lists.\u00a0 Most are drought tolerant and adapted to a wide temperature range.\u00a0 Best of all, the author enthusiastically rates the maintenance requirements of most as \u201cEASY!\u201d to \u201cVERY, VERY EASY!\u201d\u00a0 Deer or no deer, these are great garden plants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Spring 2015 <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grass Valley, California is on the outer rim of our region, but the resident gardening columnist Carolyn Singer is worth knowing about, especially for gardeners in the foothills of the Cascades.\u00a0 She is very experienced with the ravages of deer, and address this concern in two books.\u00a0 \u201cDeer in My Garden\u201d (2006), was largely written while the author spent the summer of 2005 in Seattle and focuses on perennials and subshrubs.\u00a0 \u201cDeer in My Garden: Volume 2\u201d (2008) considers the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/deer-in-my-garden-volume-2-groundcovers-edgers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deer in My Garden, Volume 2: Groundcovers &#038; Edgers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[295,20,98,22],"class_list":["post-5371","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-deer","keyword-ground-cover-plants","keyword-perennials","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/5371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}