Deer-Resistant Shrubs

Below is a list of deer-resistant shrubs, along with some deer-resistant Rugosa Hybrid roses.  Click on the plant name below to see more details about that plant.



Aucuba japonica - Spiker Variegata
Aucuba japonica
 Variegata

Buddleia - fallowiana Lochinch
Buddleia (Butterfly Bush)
fallowiana Lochinch

Serbian Spruce
Serbian Spruce


Alan's Picks of Deer-Resistant Shrubs & Rugosa Roses

American Holly
Andromeda (Pieris japonica)
Aucuba japonica
Barberry - Japanese deciduous as well as evergreen species
Beauty Berry (Callicarpa)
Blue Spiraea/Blue Beard (Caryopteris)
Blue Spruce (Picea pungens)
Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)
Boxwood (Buxus)
Brooms (Cytisus and Genista)
Butterfly Bush (Buddleia)
Chaste Tree (Vitex angus-castus)
Cherry Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus)
Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas)
Cotoneaster
Cryptomeria
Daphne
Grape Holly (Mahonia)
Inkberry Holly (Ilex glabra)
Japanese Maple
Japanese Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus)
Juniper - especially J. virginiana varieties
Kerria
Leucothoe
Lilacs (except Miss Kim)
Magnolias - deciduous species
Miscanthus (Ornamental Grasses) - not a shrub, but because of its size, sometimes can be used in place of shrubs
Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
Nandina
Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
Norway Spruce (Picea abies)
Paw Paw (Asimina triloba)
Pee Gee Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)
Potentilla
Rose of Sharon (Hibsicus syriacus)
Rugosa Roses
Serbian Spruce (Picea omorika)
Serviceberry (Amelanchier)
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
Spiraeas - spring-blooming white as well as summer-blooming in shades of pink
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum)
Sweet Box (Sarcococca)
Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
Viburnum
 

 

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