Plants deer wont destroy

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Some of you have been asking for plants that are considered to be deer resistant. So here's your plant list.

Disclaimer: when deer are hungry and food supplies are short they will eat almost any plant to survive. These lists are not guaranteed to be completely free of deer damage, but are plants deer have been found to avoid.

Perennials:

Yarrow

Peonies

Any of the ornamental onions

Columbine

Coneflower

Sweet Alyssum

Russian Sage

Blue Salvia

Lamb's Ear

Bleeding Heart

Big Bluestem

Anemone

Coreopsis

Iris

Blanket Flower

Anything with thorns

Dead Nettle

Bergamot

Miscanthus

Liatris

Yucca

Jacobs Ladder

Little Bluestem

Shrubs:

Any Viburnum

Lilac

Bayberry

Forsythia

St.John's Wort

Currants

Spirea

Wisteria

Potentilla

For some reason it was unable to create a double or triple column list.

There are many plants that were left off these lists. Go talk to the people are the smaller local nurseries to find more. If you cant find any of the plants listed here let me know, I have sources for all of them.