No plant is totally deer - substantiation . A deer ’s interest in eating a sure flower depends on the number of deer vie for food in its area , weather conditions such as drought , and the availability of plants that cervid prefer . However , deer prefer not to eat many sort of heyday , both annuals and perennial , in unlike colors , sizes and types of leaf .
Toxic Plants
Some plant are toxic to deer and will make them sick . Annuals include bee flora , puritanical cardinal flower , comfrey , some types of datura , dusty miller , nicotiana , poppies of various character , prairie flax , Texas bluebonnet and tulips . Century plant , foxglove , larkspur , lupine , narcissus and daffodils are poisonous to deer . Perennials admit blue larkspur , various species of datura , joe - pye weed , Lindheimer ’s senna , night - blooming jasmine , diversity of carmine - hot poker , two - leaved senna , windflower and woolly paperflower .
Rough or Bitter Foliage
Deer also have a distaste for plants with rough or bitter foliation . Annual flower yellow , rose and clean splenetic poppies are n’t just toxic , their foliation is prickly , as their name attests . Other yearly with foliage deer do n’t care include desert marigold , goldsturm rudbeckia , marsh fleabane , common sunflower ( Helianthus annuus ) , adage - leaf daisy and tocalote thistle ( Centaurea melitensis ) . Deer also do n’t wish strawflower because of its ironic flush . Some works have sticky foliage and leaves that are also unpalatable to deer . Annuals include tahoka daisy , palafoxia and clammyweed . Perennials include showy blue - star and various types of poppy .
Odor
Some blossom have a strong smell that repels deer . Among annuals are Tiny Tim , bitterweed , jimmyweed , sweet alyssum , camphor daisy , false Anthemis nobilis , lemon pectis , perilla mint , marsh fleabane , Black - eyed Susan , cowpen daisy and Madagascar periwinkle . perennial include golden aster , gilt - eye , lavender and milfoil .
Milky/Sitcky Sap
Deers also seldom eat flora with milky or glutinous sap , which is corrosive to them . Perennials include butterfly weed , chicory and dogbane .
Camouflage Gardening
The Native Plant Society of Texas paint a picture a method acting call off " Camouflage Gardening " for creating a deer - resistive garden . It involves first creating a " olfactory property roadblock " by planting many strongly aromatic plants throughout the yard , followed by plant other peak deer dislike . Then plant life that reseed rampantly or spread sharply by hush-hush root are place within the solid - smelling heyday . Once these plant near fill the garden , some bloom cervid like can be planted within the smell barrier , as they are less likely to be attractive to the deer .
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