Everyone has pests who visit their garden and eat their fill on flowers, fruits and vegetables. Deer can damage quite a bit as they may bring family and friends to clean you out in a matter of days. The solution is to plant what they don't like to eat. Many of the popular bulbs that deer hate are poisonous to them as well as for domestic pets so be careful if you have dogs.
Bulbs like allium, canna lily, scilla and daffodil are deer, rabbit and squirrel proof. Herbs like Rosemary, Thyme, Lavender, Chives and Mint are deer proof. Hardy perennials like Black-eye-susan, Asilbe, Coral bells, Ferns, Phlox, Coneflower, Sedum and Yucca are all deer proof. Make note of the shrubs and flowers the deer do eat. The ones they hate are poisonous in general so beware and place them in the farthest areas or in the back of large borders where children and pets won't be able to pick or chew on them.
Plants that deer won’t eat
Bulbs
Ornamental onions (alliums)
Canna lilies
Daffodil
Fritillaria
Puschkinia
Scilla
Snowdrops
Groundcovers
Catmint Pulmonaria
Lamium Sedum
Epimedium Snow in Summer
Juniper Sweet Woodruff
Lady’s Mantle Violets
Lily-of-the-valley Wild ginger
Moss Wild strawberry
Herbs
Artemisia Hyssop
Borage Lavender
Chamomile Mint
Chives Lemon Balm
Comfrey Rosemary
Feverfew Sage
Thyme
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