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Apr 7, 2001, 9:47:53 PM4/7/01

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My sister is moving into a house where deer frequent. What kind of plants,
flowers, etc. do deer not like to nibble on?

Nichole

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Apr 8, 2001, 8:51:59 AM4/8/01

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The Sunset Garden book has a section on plants that can survive in deer
country. I have used a lot of them with success.
Cheryl

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Stephen M. Henning

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Apr 8, 2001, 10:37:51 AM4/8/01

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"newsgroup" <bla...@jps.net> wrote:

> My sister is moving into a house where deer frequent. What kind of plants,
> flowers, etc. do deer not like to nibble on?

When deer were threatened with starvation here they ate everything that
was green except spruce. The term deer proof doesn't exist. There are
various layers of deer resistant depending on how hungry the deer are.
Such lists are at:

http://www.iowa-city.org/deer_plants.htm

http://www.greenerpasturesltd.com/Deer_Resistant_Plants.htm

http://www.cayugalandscape.com/gardencenter/deerresistant.html

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Apr 8, 2001, 11:16:44 AM4/8/01

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Poisionous plants like foxgloves and very thorny plants w/small leaves like
Barberry have the best chance of only getting a nibble. Daffodils also are
not eaten by them.

Mr. Hennning here gave me the following list:

A General Listing of Deer Tolerant Plants from Holden Arboretum

Plants Never Damaged:

Aluminum Christmas Trees

Plants Rarely Damaged:

Barberry
Common Barberry
Paper Birch
Common Boxwood
Russian Olive
American Holly
Drooping Leucothoe
Colorado Blue Spruce
Japanese Pieris

Plants Seldom Damaged:

European White Birch
American Bittersweet
Red Osier Dogwood
Flowering Dogwood
Kousa Dogwood
English Hawthorn
Redvein Enkianthus
European Beech
Forsythia
Honey Locust
Chinese Holly
Inkberry
Chinese Junipers (Green)
Chinese Junipers (Blue)
Mountain Laurel
Beauty Bush
Norway Spruce
White Spruce
Austrian Pine
Pitch Pine
Mugo Pine
Red Pine
Scotch Pine
Japanese Flowering Cherry
Corkscrew Willow
Common Sassafras
Common Lilac
Japanese Wisteria

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Susan Dobbs

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Apr 9, 2001, 1:20:03 AM4/9/01

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KrisHur wrote:

> Poisionous plants like foxgloves and very thorny plants w/small leaves like
> Barberry have the best chance of only getting a nibble. Daffodils also are
> not eaten by them.
>

Ours didn't eat artemesias.

SusanD

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Apr 9, 2001, 8:31:08 AM4/9/01

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Thanks, I'll try it too.

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Susan Dobbs

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Apr 9, 2001, 11:31:26 AM4/9/01

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KrisHur wrote:

> Thanks, I'll try it too.
>

Just be smarter than I was and try ONE sample plant. Leave it out quite
awhile before concluding that it's not going to be eaten in case they don't
notice it at first (they're near-sighted). I tended to believe the deer lists
and buy six of things. :( Sunset said that deer wouldn't eat rockroses,
cerastium, or mahonia repens, but the deer mowed them down. Artemesia "powis
castle" they left alone, probably because it has a strong scent when
brushed. That and manzanita were our sole survivors.

SusanD

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Apr 9, 2001, 9:49:05 PM4/9/01

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This is nowhere near as scientific as your other replies but....a bar of
(shudder) Irish Spring soap, placed near the deer entry point (or placed at
12 foot intervals) and at deer head level will absolutely turn Bambi
away...really!
John on Vancouver Island
zone 9b
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Apr 10, 2001, 1:10:13 AM4/10/01

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Thanks I will pass this along to her.

Nichole