Deer-Resistant Perennials?

[Anonymous]

Shave some Irish Spring soap and put it around the plants. The scent confuses them and they stay away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scotch Broom.



Comes in red and yellow. Amazing fragrance when flowering. Green foliage year round. In market right now.

And invasive.

In West Coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scotch Broom.



Comes in red and yellow. Amazing fragrance when flowering. Green foliage year round. In market right now.

And invasive.

In West Coast.

I cut ours back when it gets too wide. Also we tie it up as the summer progresses because it gets top heavy and flops over on the other things in that particular bed.

[Anonymous]

Spray Liquid Fence every 30 days. Deer will eat anything if hungry enough. They even mowed down the English Ivy in my parent's yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spray Liquid Fence every 30 days. Deer will eat anything if hungry enough. They even mowed down the English Ivy in my parent's yard.

Hooray! Or, anyway, that's what I would think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not the earlier daffodil poster, but I have to disagree with 19:06. Daffodils are the only thing in our yard the deer leave alone. We have over 100 daffodils, and a dozen deer who visit multiple times a day.

Us too. They won't touch 'em with a ten foot pole. They did destroy my specially-marked "deer resistant" limelight hydrangeas last summer, though. Also ate the buds of my lillies, ate my Tulips, Iris, Phlox, Pansies, Impatiens, etc. I hate the deer.

I don't think they eat my peonies, now that I think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not the earlier daffodil poster, but I have to disagree with 19:06. Daffodils are the only thing in our yard the deer leave alone. We have over 100 daffodils, and a dozen deer who visit multiple times a day.

Us too. They won't touch 'em with a ten foot pole. They did destroy my specially-marked "deer resistant" limelight hydrangeas last summer, though. Also ate the buds of my lillies, ate my Tulips, Iris, Phlox, Pansies, Impatiens, etc. I hate the deer.

I don't think they eat my peonies, now that I think about it.

Our landscaper planted daffodils and peonies for us in Barnaby Woods--lots and lots of deer, but they don't like either of these flowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scotch Broom.



Comes in red and yellow. Amazing fragrance when flowering. Green foliage year round. In market right now.

And invasive.

In West Coast.

And also in VIRGINIA:
http://na.fs.fed.us/fhp/invasive_plants/weeds/scotch-broom.pdf

Plant natives. There are many readily available, easy to grow, drought tolerant, flood tolerant choices.

[Anonymous]

Deer don't like daffodils or anything in the narcissus family but tulips? Forget it. I planted daffodils 17 years ago and the deer never touch them.

[Anonymous]

Try Red Osier Dogwood (native and year round interest)

[Anonymous]

Arrowwood (Virburnum dentatum)

[Anonymous]

Fetterbush:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fetterbush:

[Anonymous]

No such thing as deer proof plant. They pretty much eat everything. It depends on how hungry they are.

[Anonymous]

Mountain Laurel