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Choosing Deer Resistant Plants - NC Greenprints

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Choosing Deer Resistant Plants

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Deer are a major pest in suburban gardens. Deer graze on a multitude of plants that we grow in our home landscapes. Using deer repellent products can be laborious and expensive. There are a number of ways to reduce deer damage on our plants. Remember, if deer are hungry enough, they may eat just about any plant.

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Avoid growing deer susceptible plants. Some of their favorites include:

Daylily
Hosta
Tulip
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Dogwoods
Redbuds
Phlox

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Choose plants that are very resistant to deer grazing:

Most herbs; Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, Germander etc.
American Beautyberry shrub
Black-Eyed Susan
Bottlebrush Buckeye
Camellia
Daphne
Daffodil
Coastal Leucothoe
Echinacea (Purple Coneflower)
European Ginger
Most all ferns; Japanese Painted fern, Sensitive Fern, Christmas Fern etc.
Illicium
Lambs Ear
Leopard Plant (Ligularia)
Mahonia (Soft Caress)
Oriental Fountain Grass
Russian Sage (Perovskia)
Most Salvias
Smokebush
Spurges (Euphorbias)
Sweet Box
Tickseed (Coreopsis)
Winterberry
Yucca

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