DEER RESISTANT PLANTS
Please note! Deer adapt to whatever food source is available. The following list is intended to provide the local gardener with a variety of choices that deer would likely avoid; it is not a guaranteed list.
- Acanthus (bear's breeches)
- Achillea (yarrow)
- Aconitum (monkshood)
- Agastache
- Ajuga (bugleweed)
- Allium (ornamental onion)
- Amsonia
- Anemone, Japanese
- Arabis (rock cress)
- Artemisia (wormwood)
- Aruncus (goatsbeard)
- Asarum (ginger)
- Astilbe (false spirea)
- Bergenia
- Canna
- Caryopteris
- Cimicifuga (bugbane)
- Convallaria (lily-of-the-valley)
- Delphinium
- Dicentra spect. (bleeding heart)
- Digitalis (foxglove)
- Echinacea (coneflower)
- Echinops (globe thistle)
- Epimedium (barrenwort)
- Eryngium (sea holly)
- Euphorbia (cushion spurge)
- Ferns
- Fragaria
- Geranium macrorrhizum
- Grasses, Ornamental
- Hedera (English ivy)
- Hellebore
- Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)
- Heuchera (coral bells)
- Hypericum (St John's wort)
- Iris
- Lamium (dead nettle)
- Lavandula (lavender)
- Liriope
- Lychnis coronaria (rose campion)
- Monarda (bee balm)
- Nepeta (catmint)
- Paeonia (peony)
- Papaver (poppy)
- Perovskia (Russian sage)
- Polygonatum (Solomon's Seal)
- Pulmonaria (lungwort)
- Salvia (sage)
- Santolina (lavender cotton)
- Stachys (lamb's ears)
- Tradescantia (spiderwort)
- Ageratum
- Alyssum
- Angelonia
- Antirrhinum (snapdragon)
- Brachteantha (strawflower)
- Cleome (spider flower)
- Gazania (but rabbits love them!)
- Gomphrena (globe amaranth)
- Helichrysum
- Heliotrope
- Lantana
- Nicotiana
- Nirembergia
- Pelargonium (annual geranium)
- Salvia
- Tanacetum ptamciforum (dusty miller)
- Allium (chives/ornamental onion)
- Fritillaria
- Hyacinth
- Narcissus (daffodil)
- Amelanchier (serviceberry)
- Berberis (barberry)
- Buddleia (butterfly bush)
- Buxus (boxwood)
- Calastrus scandens (American bittersweet)
- Cephalotaxus (Jap. plum yew)
- Cornus sericea (red twig dogwood)
- Cotinus coggrygria (smoketree)
- Cotoneaster
- Cytisus (Scotch broom)
- Daphne
- Erica (heather)
- Forsythia
- Hamamelis (witch hazel)
- Kolkwitzia amabilis (beautybush)
- Kalmia (mountain laurel)
- Kerria
- Leucothoe
- Mahonia (grape holly)
- Nandina
- Pieris japonica (andromeda)
- Spirea
- Syringa vulgaris (lilac)
- Viburnum plicata
- Betula nigra ‘Heritage’ (Heritage birch)
- Chamaecyparis pisifera (Japanese false cypress)
- Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese cedar)
- Ginkgo biloba
- Ilex x meserveae ‘Dragon Lady&rsquo (Dragon Lady holly)
- Ilex aquipernyi ‘Red Beauty&rsquo (holly)
- Liquidamber (sweet gum)
- Picea pungens glauca (Colorado blue spruce)
- Campsis (trumpet vine)
- Clematis
- Hedera helix (English ivy)
- Ipomoea batatas (Sweet potato vine --annual)
- Lonicera (honeysuckle)
- Parthenocissus (Boston ivy)
- Wisteria
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At least 90% of the herbs we sell are deer-resistant due to their textures and strong aromas. Simply planting lavenders, sages and mints around deer favorites, for example, oftentimes will keep the deer away. Please visit our herb department and see individual signs and handouts throughout our store for more information.