Deer Resistant Plants

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Shop deer-resistant plants (trees, shrubs, ferns, and perennials) that deer usually leave alone, grown on our Tennessee farm since 1959 and shipped straight to your door. Filter by plant type, zone, and sun to plan a landscape that holds up in deer country. Buy Deer Resistant Plants Online From a TennesseeNursery Deer will eat almost anything when they’re hungry enough, but they have strong preferences. They pass over plants with fuzzy or leathery leaves, strong scents, bitter sap or toxic foliage, and they head for tender, smooth-leaved plants instead. Fill your yard with the plants deer like least, and the damage drops dramatically. TN Nursery has grown and shipped plants from McMinnville, Tennessee, since 1959, so every plant you order comes from a family farm rather than a warehouse. How to Choose Plants Deer Won’t Eat What’s your growing zone? Use the zone filter above. Our deer resistant plants cover zones 3 through 9. How heavy is your deer pressure? No plant is deer-proof. In a hard winter or a dry summer, hungry deer will sample almost anything. Where deer are heavy, lean on the most reliable choices: ferns and plants with toxic or bitter foliage. What are you planting? Use this page to plan the whole yard, then shop deer resistant perennials for flowers and deer resistant shrubs for borders and hedges. Deer Resistant Plants for Shade Shade is where deer browse most, and it’s also where the most reliable deer resistant plants grow. Native ferns top the list. Christmas Fern stays green all winter, and deer almost never touch its leathery fronds. Giant Ostrich Fern and Lady Fern fill shady beds with tall, lush texture. Black Cohosh adds white summer flower spikes on toxic foliage deer avoid. Browse all ferns . Deer Resistant Flowers for Sun For sunny beds, choose flowers with rough, hairy or bitter leaves. Black-Eyed Susan and Purple Coneflower bloom all summer on coarse foliage deer dislike. Butterfly Weed and Milkweed have bitter, milky sap that deer leave