Deer Resistant Plants
Every year deer invade more neighborhoods. If you don’t yet have them, chances are eventually you will. Deer can be “trained” to stay off your property by using completely organic deer repellant available at most nurseries as well as at Lowes & Home Depot.
No plants are “deer proof”. The list below are less favored by the deer than most:
- Crape Myrtle
- Barberry
- Brunnera
- Fountain Grass
- Heather
- African Lilly
- Foxglove
- Rosemary
- Mint
- Sweet Woodruff
- Butterfly Bush
- Common Boxwood
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Pieris
- Zinnia
- Lamb’s Ear
- Lilly of the Valley
- Yucca
- Cat Mint
- Bee Palm
- Most Ferns
- Lavender
- English Ivy
- Pachysandra
- Peony
- Russian Sage
- Tarragon
- Thyme