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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd add these DEER resistant plants (the reality of this area) to list:
My favorite is lily of the valley
the sweet nicotianas (tender annuals that self seed and/or grow from own roots): bloom late afternoon into early morning and are just lovely scent and plant Moonflower vine for same
sweet allysum (though not a smell I like!)
All the culinary rosemary, sages and thymes among the herbs that look pretty in the gardens (and bloom)
Dianthus
Monarda (beebalm)
Russian sage (get the newer "dwarf" varieties 
Cheerfulness daffodil very fragrant

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Please don't plant Russian Sage--it's invasive:
http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/4dmg/Weed/non.htm

as is nicotianas:  http://texasinvasives.org/plant_database/detail.php?symbol=NIGL

as is sweet alyssum:  http://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=18750

as is dianthus:  http://www.wildflower.org/expert/show.php?id=771

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It says right on your link that Russian sage is not invasive, that it's better than Mediterranean.

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Big whoop.  Everything else suggested was invasive.

Sh*t labeled a "noxious weed" or "invasive" in other parts of the country will be invasive and noxious weeds here.

Why plant anything invasive in any case?  Not everything "non-native" is invasive.  You're just too dense to realize this.  However, we've got dozen of native alternatives.[/quote]

I appreciate your effort, and whole-heartedly agree that no one should plant invasive species, and everyone should choose native when possible. However, you have to be correct to or people will stop listening. Some things are invasive in other areas because they over perform but in other areas they barely survive. It can't become invasive it can't thrive. So most annuals that do not self seed, cannot become invasive.

You cite a Texas resource about NICOTIANA GLAUCA, a woody, evergreen shrub to 3 meters high with erect sparsely branched stems. Long tubular yellow flowers that produces many seeds that are dispersed by wind and water. It is invasive everywhere it grows, but it has a hard time growing around here (DC area), begin on the edge of our zone. So it is a poor choice either way.

PP as referenced sweet nicotania: Nicaotania alta or sylvestris, which is a small annual flowering plant in this zone (herbacious perennial in zones 10 and 11 only) and dies in October, is unlikely to reseed in this area, maybe in warmer coastal areas or further south.

Similarly, you site another Texas invasive, the dianthus pink, Dianthus ameria, aka Deptford Pink, which is invasive. However, other species of dianthus, while not native, are annuals and are not invasive. https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=12196

The bottom line for everyone is to know what you are planting and research it before you buy it.[/quote]

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