The most effective means of managing a deer problem is to use plants deer dislike. While it may seem like deer will eat just about anything, this really isn t true.
Deer have strong likes and dislikes.
They also seem to know which plants are poisonous to them. Unfortunately, many of the plants deer like to eat have become some of the most common landscape plants. However, there are dozens of readily available plants that deer will almost never eat, many of which are more beautiful and interesting than the more widely used staples deer find to be so tasty. We have prepared four Free Landscape Designs for some general situations - a Barrier to Hide the View of a Road , Plantings around a Mailbox , Beautification of a Stone Wall , and a Rose Garden . You can see the deer resistant plants we've selected for the purpose, a schematic diagram for the design, and how it looks before and after the plantings.