Blephilia ciliata Englerarum The good color contrast holds

The good color contrast holds all season

makes a compact 6' tall upright deer-resistant hummingbird friendly bush

the clumps are topped with 6" spikes of tiny white buds that open as grey-green flowers

Deer usually avoid Amsonia

Osmunda spectabilis

Blephilia ciliata Englerarum The good color contrast holdsBlephilia ciliata is a little known clumping mint cousin, native from Vermont south to Georgia and west to Texas, where it occurs in open woods and meadows. In form, Blephilia ciliata is a woodland version of bee balm without the pesky spreading tendency. Downy wood mint forms a 1. 5' tall x 1. 5' wide clump of upright hairy stems, topped, starting for us in mid May with whorls of lavender flowers. Like its cousin, bee balm, Blephilia ciliata is a