Deer-Resistant Native Plants

The Panorama Red is a great cutting plant for center pieces. Produce vibrant red blooms from July to August on 3' foot plants. Vivid red bee balm made for cutting gardens. Three-foot plants flower generously from July through August. Fragrant foliage offers natural deer and rabbit resistance.

The Blue False Indigo Baptisia is the most popular Baptisias around as it provides early deep blue blooms in a beautiful bushy shape. This flower variety produces very attractive deep blue blooms and great bushy foliage that can be enjoyed all summer long. The Blue Indigo can grow up to 4' in height and its branching habit make wide spacing advisable in home landscaping.

The Queeny Lemon Peach Zinnia is a stunning variety prized for its unique and captivating color combination. Its flowers exhibit a delightful blend of lemon-yellow and soft peach tones, creating a harmonious and warm palette that stands out in any garden setting. This zinnia cultivar is known for its vigorous growth and prolific blooming, producing large, double-layered flowers that add a splash of vibrancy to borders, beds, or containers.

Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) is a native North American prairie grass with a rich history as a foundational species in tallgrass ecosystems, valued for its resilience and ecological benefits. It features fine-textured, upright blue-green blades that turn striking shades of red, orange, and bronze in the fall, reaching about 2–4 feet tall. Adapted to a wide range of soils, it thrives in full sun with minimal water or fertilizer once established, making it ideal for xeriscaping and low-maintenance landscapes.

The Pink Luminosa Zinnia produces a large bloom of lovely pink petals that make a beautiful, bold statement in the meadow or home garden. This bright variety is extremely easy to grow and long-lasting.

Common lemon balm is a fragrant herb prized for bright, lemon-scented leaves and a wide range of culinary and traditional uses. Fresh leaves add a gentle citrus flavor to teas and foods and provide a calming aroma in sachets and baths. Easy to grow in garden beds or containers, this versatile herb is both practical and attractive. Harvest leaves throughout the season for the freshest fragrance and flavor.

Spearmint seeds yield a robust and aromatic herb with a rich history and distinctive qualities. Believed to have originated in the Mediterranean region, spearmint has been used since ancient times for its cooling, digestive benefits and its refreshing flavor. The plant is characterized by its bright green, ovate leaves with a smooth texture and a slightly serrated edge, emitting a sweet, mildly spicy aroma.

The French Thyme is a popular herb used to add flavor in poultry and fishes dishes as well as salads, stews, sauces and pickles! This Thyme variety produces very aromatic blue-green leaves with pale lavender flowers that will add a pop of beautiful color to any garden or windowsill.

Marshmallow yarrow is a great choice for long and consistent blooms. Produces and abundance of blooms from late spring to late summer, with double sugar-white flowers. Drought and heat tolerant, compact, 18-30 in. tall plants bloom the first year. Marshmallow is an excellent choice for containers.

Sightseeing Veronica is a charming perennial plant known for its striking, upright spikes of vibrant purple flowers that create a stunning visual display in gardens and landscapes. A blend of white, pink and blue blooms that will definitely catch your eye in any garden. This variety is a long lasting cut flower that grows up to 28" inches.

Asclepias incarnata ‘Ice Ballet’, often called White Swamp Milkweed, is a selected form of the native Swamp Milkweed long found along wetlands, marsh edges, and moist prairies across North America, where it has served for generations as an essential host plant for monarch caterpillars. This cultivar stands out for its showy clusters of pure white, vanilla-scented flowers that bloom in midsummer, contrasting beautifully with its upright stems and narrow, deep-green leaves.

The Gayfeather Liatris is an excellent variety at attracting butterflies, bees and hummingbirds and matures to 4' in wet to mesic soil conditions. Like many Liatris species, when it begins to bloom it starts at the top and works its way down. This is an excellent Liatris species to plant in wet-medium prairies and perennial gardens and it makes to be a perfect cut flower.

Replete Daffodil is a stunning double-flowered variety that brings elegance and romance to the spring garden. Supplied as dormant bulbs, this selection is ready for seasonal planting and vigorous growth. Its large blooms feature layers of creamy white petals accented by ruffled apricot-pink centers, creating a unique color combination that stands out in beds, borders, and bouquets. Blooming in mid to late spring, Replete produces long-lasting flowers that are both deer-resistant and easy to grow. Returning reliably year after year, this award-winning daffodil adds charm, texture, and a touch of vintage beauty to any landscape.

Nodding Onion brings the history of wild edible onions to North American meadows and open woods; its bulbs and leaves have been used like chives. Hooked stems carry pink to lavender flower clusters that hang downward, allowing bees to reach nectar while hovering below. The onion scent helps deter deer, and bulbs slowly form new offsets. Grow this perennial in sun or light shade and medium to moist, well-drained soil.

Few flowers grow as rapidly or as gracefully as the colorful and very popular Bright Lights Cosmos as it is known for its performance and adaptability. These cosmos are uniform growing plants that blooms throughout the summer. The Bright Lights Cosmo bear a profusion of intense, semi-double flowers with a delicate, feathery green foliage that gives an airy touch to the garden from midsummer to frost. This variety is wonderful for cutting and bringing inside in vases or bouquets. The Bright Lights Cosmo tolerate poor soil, heat and humidity and attracts Butterflies.

Lance Leaf Coreopsis seeds come from a hardy, drought-tolerant perennial known for its bright, daisy-like yellow flowers with a reddish center. This plant thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it an excellent choice for adding color to gardens, especially in xeriscaping or low-maintenance landscapes. Growing up to 2–3 feet tall, Lance Leaf Coreopsis attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies, while its long bloom period—typically from early summer to fall—provides continuous interest in the garden. The seeds are easy to sow and germinate quickly, making it a great option for both beginner and experienced gardeners.

Cherry Bicolor Profusion is a beautiful zinnia with mixture of whites, pinks and red petals. A popular variety for greenhouse growers, containers and in the garden. Excellent disease resistance and uniformity. Also does very well in extreme heat and drought tolerant. Compact growth and excellent performance allow it to grow in all climates.

White sage, scientifically known as Salvia apiana, has silvery-gray leaves and aromatic, slender stems, white sage is highly valued for its fragrant, cleansing properties. The leaves have a strong, earthy aroma when dried, making them popular for incense and herbal teas. Low Germination: White sage (Salvia apiana) seeds generally have a low germination rate, often around 15-30%, but can vary. This low rate is a survival mechanism for the plant in its native desert environment, where not all seeds need to germinate at once.

Goldsturm Rudbeckia (Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ‘Goldsturm’) is an award-winning perennial introduced in the mid-20th century and celebrated for its long-lasting, golden-yellow daisy-like blooms with dark brown centers. Native to North America, this variety grows 24–36 inches tall and 18–24 inches wide, creating bold displays in borders, meadows, and pollinator gardens. Easy to grow from seed, it thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, tolerating heat, drought, and poor soils once established.

These are by far our favorite Rudbeckia flower. These provide a prolific amount of flowers that excellent for cut flower use. Once cut, these flowers will stay fresh and look great for weeks! The long narrow petals of the Chim Chiminee Rudbeckia give off beautiful fall shades of bronze, gold, red and burnt orange. This variety is perfect for any garden or vase as it is an outstanding cut flower!

An All American Selection winner. It's unbelievable how many blooms this plant will produce. A dwarf Tithonia, Mexican Sunflower, that has thick blooms on beautiful dark green foliage. Blooms vibrant orange, 2-3" flowers that continuously replace themselves as they fade off. Does well in heat, humidity and drought.

The Large Leaf Italian Basil produces large, light green leaves that offers an excellent aroma to any meal, soup or sauce! This variety is our most popular basil plant. The Large Leaf Italian is a prolific plant that produces very large leaves with some that can even cover a slice of bread! This variety is sweeter than the Genovese basil, and produces an attractive, bushy plant with its very popular, aromatic leaves.

The State Fair Zinnia is a customer favorite and a State Fair winner for its jumbo 5" flowers that bloom in a wide range of colors! This tall, robust plant produces flowers that bloom in shades of red, yellow, orange, purple, pink, white and bicolors. State Fair is disease resistant with terrific sun and heat tolerance.

The Galilee Pink Perfection larkspur is a botanical marvel, captivating gardeners with its ethereal beauty and delicate charm. Standing tall on slender, erect stems reaching heights of up to 3 to 4 feet, this larkspur variety commands attention with its graceful presence. Its lush, palmate leaves provide a verdant backdrop for the main attraction: the exquisite blossoms that adorn its elongated spikes.

QIS is the perfect Larkspur for cut flower production. Produces beautifully tall spires of dense florets. Plants produce indigo-blue double blooms with a small percentage of singles. Little florets on 9–12" flower spikes. Great for also attracting beneficial insects and hummingbirds.

The Sahara Rudbeckia has a beautiful bloom of caramel, red and pink - perfect for a fall bouquet since it will flower into mid to late autumn! It tolerates heat well and thrives in full Sun. Grown as a half-hardy annual, the Sahara performs well in most soil types. This delightful flower not only is an attention grabber for people, but for butterflies as well. Make sure to deadhead faded flowers regularly to encourage more blooms.

This plant is a vigorous and heavy-bearing perennial foxglove that produces beautiful, large blooms of deep "strawberry" pink. This variety is the longest lived foxglove on the market today. Large flowers create unusually rich foxglove color. Long-lived performance distinguishes this garden favorite. Heavy-bearing growth produces a substantial display.

The Painted Daisy is a bushy, long stemmed annual that produces plenty of colorful, painted-like daisies in the early summer! This variety blooms white, pink and red flowers that have yellow centers, and their long stems combine with fern-like foliage to make excellent bouquet presentations.

The Panorama Bee Balm is a great cutting plant for center pieces. This beautiful flower blooms from July to August on 3' foot plants. This bee balm prefers full sun or afternoon shade.

Gypsy offers up abundant airy flowers on graceful plants with finely-textured foliage. Gypsy Deep Pink offers beautiful dark pink blooms for an extended period of time. Ideal for baskets and mixed containers. Excellent filler cut flower for vases and bouquets.

Cinnamon basil is a fragrant culinary herb with a warm, spicy flavor and aroma reminiscent of cinnamon. Bushy, upright plants grow about 12–24 inches tall and feature green leaves with reddish-purple stems. Harvest the flavorful leaves throughout the season for use in curries, salads, teas, and desserts. This attractive basil thrives in warm, sunny conditions and well-drained soil and also draws pollinators to gardens and containers.