Deer Resistant Plants

Plants Deer Love
aucuba, apples, Asiatic lilies, candytuft, camellia, cherries, clematis, crocus, daylilies, evergreen azaleas, hibiscus, hosta, hybrid tea toses, Indian hawthorn, pansies, black eyed susans, roses, Autumn Joy sedum, fatsia, grape hyacinths, rhododendron, tulips, euonymus, yews and violas
Deer-Resistant Plants
Trees: Leyland cypress, gingko, river birch, palms, pines, red maple, southern magnolia, spruce, deodar cedar, crape myrtle, Russian olive, cherry laurel, dogwood, Colorado blue spruce, Norway and white, and pines
Shrubs: Barberry, common boxwood, hollies, Japanese pieris, inkberry, mountain laurel, beautybush, anise, cotoneaster, firethorn, junipers, oleander, leatherleaf mahonia, Japanese rose, gardenia, forsythia, heavenly bamboo, ornamental grasses, spirea, sweetshurb, common sassafras, corkscrew willow, mon lilac, yucca, viburnum, Scotch broom and winter daphne
Perennials/herbs: English lavender, santoinas, dusty miller, ajuga and periwinkle ground covers, wire grass, Japanese wisteria, yarrow, chives, butterfly weed, coreopsis, coneflower, globe thistle, pye weed, tiger lily, daffodil, evening primrose, tansy, goldenrod, rosemary, sage, morning glory, foxglove, wax begonia, snapdragon, dahlia, sweet basil, geranium, parsley, blue salvia, bee balm, boltonia, goldenrod, iris, lantana, shasta daisy, and pinks
Annuals: marigold, flowering tobacco, cleome, poppy, pentas, verbena, zinnia, wax begonia, parsley and sweet pea
Sources: Virginia Cooperative Extension, Rodale's Landscape Problem Solver
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