The cornerstone of my first garden was, and still is, a weed. A giant of a plant, known to thrive in sun or semi-shade if the soil (or hard clay in my case) tends to be damp, Eupatorium purporium ...

Flowering sweet Joe pye weed with groups of small pink blooms and green foliage. - Cynthia Shirk/Shutterstock While deer are essential to a balanced ecosystem, these herbivores primarily feed on ...