Keep your garden from turning into a salad bar by growing these deer-resistant flowers.
Peter Krumhardt
Deer are hungry critters.
Deer particularlylove hostas, roses, pansies, and tulips, among the prettiest plants in a garden.
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After the flowers fade, attractive mounds of green or bronze fernlike foliage last through fall.
The flowers last for months, and the evergreen umbrella-shaped leaves form attractive mounds.
Leathery green foliage remains attractive after the flowers fade.
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Flowers are usually lavender-blue, but selections with white, pink, or violet blooms are available.
Growing wider than tall, its aromatic gray-green leaves blend easily with othersun loving perennials.
Thisclump-forming perennialputs on a show in fall when its willow-shaped foliage turns golden yellow.
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Selections vary in size from tiny rock garden plants to upright bloomers for the middle to back of borders.
Where happy, they often reseed themselves.
In mild climates, theyre often evergreen.
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This easy-to-grownative plantwith a long bloom season bears starry flowers in shades of yellow, pink, or red.
New varieties offer white, yellow, orange, and red flowers.
Afavorite of pollinatorsand birds, they often reseed themselves.
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Like many otherplants disliked by deer, it bears scented foliage.
Most have scented foliage, which deer tend to avoid.
Mounds of blue-green leaves contribute their own delicate beauty.
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It releases its warm fragrance each time its stepped upon, repelling deer.
Its bright flowers, with their tubular petals clustered in showy whorls, appear almost all summer long.
While the scented leaves are off-putting to deer, they make a delicious tea!
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In spring, beautiful clusters of smallsky-blue flowersthat resemble forget-me-nots appear.
It’s also incredibly deer and rabbit resistant and it takes heat and drought like a champ.
It’s a great, long-lastingcut flower, both fresh and dried.
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Plants form wide-spreading clumps, making them a good choice for plantingbeneath shrubsor small trees.
Because they can adapt to dry shade, they’re a good choice for planting beneath shrubs and trees.
Thisnative perennialwill attract lots of butterflies but, fortunately, not deer.
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Its easy to grow, drought tolerant, and if it likes its location, it will reseed itself.
Its bright orange-yellow flowers appear on sturdy stems in summer.
This clump-forming perennial gets bigger and better every year, and the flowers areexcellent for cutting.
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From midsummer to autumn, a dome of pink flowers appears atop tall stems, attracting many pollinators.
More compact varieties, such as Little Joe, may be better suited tosmaller landscapes.
The plant spreads by rhizomes to create a lush, glossy groundcover inwoodland gardens.
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This is a method that some gardeners use to repel deer.
However, there is no scientific evidence confirming that it works, so other methods are recommended.
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