Country Mile Gardens Deer Resistant List

Update: Some plants now have their own page with pictures & info. More to follow, check back often.

These plants listed we consider to be the best for deer resistance, however, they are not Deer Proof

Annuals

  • Ageratum
  • Allysum
  • Bacopa
  • Begonia (Wax)
  • Celosia
  • Cleome
  • Cosmos
  • Dusty Miller
  • Lantana
  • Licorice
  • Ornamental Grasses
  • Salvia(Primarily Blue)
  • Snapdragon
  • Straw Flower
  • Vinca (Flowering)
  • Vinca Vine
  • Zinnia

Shade Loving Perennials

  • Astilbe
  • Bleeding Heart
  • Brunnera/Bugloss
  • Daffodil (Fall Bulb)
  • Epemedium
  • Ferns
  • Hellebore
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Japanese Forrest Grass
  • Lamium
  • Ligularia
  • Monkshood
  • Myrtle (Perwinkle, Vinca)
  • Pachysandra
  • Sedges
  • Sweet Woodruff
  • Tiarella (Foam Flower)

Sun Loving Perennials

  • Allium (Fall Bulb)
  • Artemesia
  • Baptisia
  • Catmint
  • Coreopsis
  • Cranesbill
  • Evening Primrose
  • Frittilaria (Fall Bulb)
  • Foxglove
  • Iris
  • Joe Pye Weed
  • Lamb's Ear
  • Lamium
  • Lavender
  • Liatris
  • Ornamental Grasses
  • Peony
  • Poppy
  • Russian Sage
  • Salvia
  • Turtlehead
  • Salvia
  • Yarrow

Decidious Shrubs

  • Barberry
  • Bayberry
  • Butterfly Bush
  • California Privet
  • Climbing Hydrangea - Vine
  • Cotoneaster
  • Honeysuckle - Vine
  • Itea
  • Kerria
  • Leatherleaf Viburnum
  • Potentilla
  • Scotch Broom
  • Smoke Bush
  • Spirea
  • Witchhazel

Evergreen Shrubs

  • Boxwood
  • Cherry Laurel
  • Helleri Japanese Holly
  • Japanese Black Pine
  • Juniper
  • Leucothoe
  • Mugo Pine
  • Japanese Pieris
  • PJM Rhododendron
  • Japanese Skimmia
  • Spruce (Dwf. Types)
  • Cryptomeria (Dwf.)
  • Himilayan Sarcacocca
  • Viburnum (Leatherleaf)
  • Barberry (Evergreen)

Evergreen Trees

  • Tier 1 (Nearly Proof)
  •  Norway Spruce
  • Blue Spruce
  • American Holly
  • Tier 2 (Resistant)
  • Serbian Spruce
  • Western Arborvitae
  • Leyland Cypress
  • White Pine
  • Dragon Lady Holly
  • Cryptomeria
  • Tier 3 (Low Pressure)
  • Canadian Hemlock
  • Upright Junipers
  • San Jose Holly
  • Southern Magnolia