Deer Resistant Shrubs

With great pain and effort, you have decorated the front lawn of your landscape, you have planted your favorite rose bushes, you have planted some really pretty flower plants and you have done all that is possible to keep your landscape beautiful and also to protect the plants from any kind of damage. But all your efforts goes in vain, when deer, in search of food, come and ruin your plants, chew on your favorite flowers and thus spoil the entire look of your garden. You have tried almost everything from deer fences to electric fences, but it's been of no use. I think it's high time you start planting shrubs and plants which repel deer, which deer will not love to chew on, the smell of which will send them away. Given below is a list of deer resistant shrubs which you can plant in your garden and rest assured that deer will not destroy them.

Common Shrubs

Why do you think is the population of the deer rising in number? Why do you think they are trespassing our gardens and destroying plants? Well, what with the decrease in number of natural predators, and also deer hunting being banned and on top of that clearing of forests, deer are now moving into residential areas in search for food. Our garden plants make their food. There are however some deciduous, evergreen shrubs and plants which deer do not eat. Either the taste of the shrub, or the smell or maybe difficulty in digesting that plant or toxins present in the plants, keep the deer away. Whatever be the reason, deer refrain themselves from these plants and thus remain away from our garden. Now isn't that exactly what we want? Here are some such plants which you can plant while gardening.

• Juniper: These are slow growing dense evergreen plants which can sometimes grow up to a height of even 90 feet. These plants have needle like foliage and the needles is what keeps the deer at bay. These plants also produce some really attractive blue colored seed cones.
• Mugo Pine: The scientific name of this deer resistant shrub is Pinus mugo. These plants too, like the Juniper have needle-like structures on them and unlike the other pine trees, the prickly feeling caused by these needles remains for a long time, hence acting as a good deer repellent.
• Dapne: These shrubs are toxic shrubs that grows up to 3 to 4 feet tall and bear attractive white flowers during spring and red flowers during the summers. It is the toxin present in the leaves that prevents the deer from chewing on them.
• Dianthus: The Dianthus or the Dianthus sp., grows up to a height of 15 to 16 inches only, but can grow well in places where other plants cannot grow and their thick growth makes a thick evergreen mat which prevents the deer from coming into your lawn.

Which shrubs to use depends on the area where you are staying. There are several shrubs, Texas grows different from the ones New Jersey grows; you can find out what grows in the place you stay in, from a nursery nearby. Here are some more shrubs for shade or for lighted areas that you can plant in order to keep the deer away.

Shrubs to Plant in Your Backyard
American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)	Forsythia
Cushion spurge (Euphorbia polychroma)	Bleeding Hearts (Dicentra sp.)
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)	Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum)	Bicolor Barrenwort
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)	Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
Heather (Calluna species)	White Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus)
Monkshood (Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii')	Ornamental Chives (Allium sp.)
Silver Mound (Artemisia schmidtiana)	Butterfly Bush (Buddleia Davidii)
Boxwood (Buxus sp.)	Butterfly Weed (Asclepias)
Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)	Vernal Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis)
Regal Privet (Ligustrum obtusifolium regelianum)	Geranium

These were the various deer resistant shrubs that you can grow in your lawn in order to keep the deer away from your precious plants. You can also try out some homemade deer repellents for that matter. But if you wish to go the natural way in keeping deer away, you can choose deer resistant flowers or one of these deer resistant plants.