What is a good flowering plant that the deer will not eat?
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at
12:25 am
Dirt Cheap flower grower asked:
The deer keep eating my all my plants, i’ve sprayed pepper spray for deer prevention, but it only last a little while, and i always miss the next treatment.
The deer keep eating my all my plants, i’ve sprayed pepper spray for deer prevention, but it only last a little while, and i always miss the next treatment.
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I’ve heard Day Lilies are good at deterring deer. I’ve heard of people using garlic, too. What I’ve learned, also, is that deer don’t like smelly plants(i.e. the various mints, etc.), and they really don’t like the hairy plants (i.e. Lamb’s Ear, for one). These are ones that they won’t eat, so I keep them around the edges of my garden. I’ve also heard of using human hair, like the hair on the floor after you get your hair cut. Spread it around your garden. It smells of humans, so they avoid it. It seems to have worked in my garden.
There are very few things that deer won’t eat when desperate for food. The only truly bullet proof flowering plant is the Dahlia. Occasionally however, bucks will do a Don Quixote fighting windmill imitation and annihilate the plant with their newly grown. The good news is Dahlias are spectacular and bloom til frost.
I’ve seen deer eat onions, leeks, tomato plants drenched with hot pepper spray, rudbeckia, echinacea and countless other plants reputed to be deer safe.