| Deer herds will have different preferences by regions, depending upon availability of other foods. I've found these flowers to work well in my deer resistant garden (no fencing, no repellents in use). SL Magazine was here this summer and has a copy of this list that they are going to use in an upcoming issue in 2010 that features my deer resistant garden. I am listing only those plants that I've personally grown in my garden where 20+ deer wander through at least once a day. I'm sure that I've forgotten a few plants, but these are the best. Top Flowering Deer Resistant Perennials: Agastache
'Salmon & Pink'
'Blue Fortune'
'Purple Haze'
'Purple Pygmy'
'Heather Queen' Echinacea
'Ruby Star'
'White Swan'
'Sundown' (I think that's it -- orange) Monarda
'Raspberry Wine'
'Jacob Cline'
'Blue Stocking' Nepeta
'Walkers Low' and 'Six Hills Giant' Salvia
guarantica 'Black & Blue'
ulignosa (bog sage)
greggii 'Dark Dancer', 'Navajo Bright Red', 'Diane', 'Texas Wedding', 'Cherry Queen'
nemorosa 'Marcus', 'Caradonna' Other good deer resistant flowering perennials
heliotropium amplexicaule 'Azure Skies'
gaillardia
ageratum 'Wayside'
baptisia
coreopsis 'Creme Brulee' and verticillata 'Zagreb/
amsonia hubrichtii
verbena 'Homestead Purple'
verbena bonariensis
crocosmia 'Lucifer'
delosperma cooperii
stachys hummelo
anemone 'Margarette', 'Prince Henry'
rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'
iris ensata (there may be some bloom picking. I grow many of these and lost only 3 blooms that I noticed) Top Flowering Deer Resistant Shrubs & Trees
Crape Myrtle 'Tuscarora', 'Muskogee', 'White Chocolate'
Buddleia 'Pink Delight', 'Royal Red', 'Adonis Blue', 'Honeycomb', 'Black Knight' (and another one that is lavender/orange eye)
Vitex 'Shoal Creek'
Spirea 'Neon Flash' for blooms and a few other varieties for the foliage
Lantana (multiple varieties; some bloom nibbles may occur in late fall)
osmanthus fragrans
magnolia - Sweet Bay Magnolia and Southern (must protect trunk from antler rubbing, but they don't eat these)
Winter Daphne
Gardenia 'August Beauty'
I've just added the Proven Winners 'Blue Satin' Rose of Sharon to try. It is listed as deer resistant Flowering Deer Resistant Vines
Carolina Jasmine
Confederate Jasmine Flowering Deer Resistant Annuals and Bulbs
daffodils
Spanish bluebells
allium 'Purple Sensation'
Dutch iris
larkspur
snapdragons
petunias (I grow only the deep purple that are very fragrant. Not Wave.)
zinnias (Benary's Giant tested)
marigolds
angelonia
cosmos Deer Resistant Foliage Plants (shrubs, trees, herbs and perennials)
canna 'tropicana rose'
stachys 'Helen von Stein'
colocasia esculenta
white butterfly ginger
lysmachia nummularia Aurea lavender (Spanish and 'Munstead')
rosemary
oregano (culinary officinalis and ornamental gold)
sages (culinary officinalis, purple, gold leaf, pineapple)
thyme (rose, lemon, culinary)
chives
basil (Thai, sweet, spicy, purple) miscanthus 'Cosmopolitan', 'Little Zebra'
carex (multiple varieties)
pink muhly
pampas grass chamaecyparis pisifera
wax myrtle
carex holly
oakleaf holly
osmanthus 'Goshiki'
cotinus - purple smokebush (I grow it for the foliage, not the bloom)
clumping bamboo (fargesii?) weeping willow, curly willow
river birch
cryptomeria (Black Dragon and the large trees that are probably one of the Tsugi?)
deodar cedar Cameron | 
