Help with Deer Resistant planting

[MuirView Design]

I was wondering if someone could help me get some ideas for this one. It's a simple little walkway I'm doing for someone who lives in the woods. They want to also do a landscape that will be the whole front of the house with lots of shrubs and perennials. The existing yews and hedges are coming out, along with the pachysandra, so it will be a clean slate. These weird shaped beds always give me trouble, as far as layout. Also, I'm trying to decide on shrubs and an ornamental tree. They need to be deer resistant, and the garden gets about 6 hours of sun in the open areas.

For perennials, I'm thinking of going with Monarda, Stachys, Achillea, Helleborus, Digitalis, Baptista, Phlox & Pervoskia.....I'm pretty sure these are all deer resistant.

Thanks!

BTW - the walkway will be tan (Belgard Potomac blend)....not sure why it rendered so gray.

[ClearValley]

William Penn Barbery, nice yellow flowers evergreen ....if you have shade Pieris Japonica is usually not hit around here also...Caryopteris,Abelia,Daphne and Hypericum.....I'll get back to you with other ideas...little too early to think....

[MuirView Design]

Larry,

Does Aucuba Japonica do pretty well against deer? I like the Abelia idea. I was thinking maybe Amelanchier 'Autumn Brilliance' for a native specimen.

[CaptainsLS]

We have lots of dear here. Things that come to mind:

Rose of sharon
Forsythia
Deutzia
Spirea
SpringGrove Thuja (deer resistant arbovitae)
Some Illex/Inkberry
I've had good luck with Hosta
I know they dont like the Andromeda, as Clear Valley said
Rainbow Leucothoe

[mckeeland]

I have seen deer eat just about anything, barberries, arborvitaes and defiantly hostas, deer love hostas. i have even though about trying a hosta, they look like they would be tasty with some Italian dressing, LOL.

most dayliles i believe are deer "resistant" too.

[ClearValley]

Hosta get munched heavily in these parts....Astible does well needs shade and can't dry out...Delphinium,Fragrant Viburnum farreri which has a nice dwarf variety (nannum I think....Buddeleja Davidii butterfly bush (there are some nice dwarfs WhiteBall and Purple Emperor @4-5' and Adonis Blue)..Asters,Gailliarda,Columnbine, Ajuga, Daphne and Shasta Daisies, Cherry Laurel, almost all your grasses...Carex a sedge will do well in shade, False Indigo,Jacobs Ladder.....Actually most viburnums although avoid double file and dilatum and praqense.......let me know if you need more......I love this stuff

[ClearValley]

Oh I forgot
http://springhillnursery.com/search.asp?start=0&t=pf&pf_se=any&pf_c=any&pf_z=any&pf_fc=any&pf_u=Deer_Resistant

Try this link

[MuirView Design]

http://www.carrollgardens.com/deerresistant.asp
http://www.savvygardener.com/Features/deer_resistant.html

I found these also. I'll try to get a design put together with these choices and get some pics posted for feedback.

Thanks for all your help!!

[landdesign]

No perovskia, not enough sun and it will get leggy and floppy..and not a good choice if you are going for a woodland shade garden....try johnson's blue geranium.

Astilbe always looks awesome in the shade. Mahonia and skimmia do well in a shady areas with deer.

For grasses try wild oats grass (Chasmanthium latifolium) native and great in the shade, or Hakon grass, not native, but equally a quality shade/deer tolerant grass.

Good Luck, I will post more as it comes to me.