New Jersey Deer Resistant Plants and Repellents
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Boxwood: more than 150 kinds of commercially available boxwood, which come in many sizes, shapes, leaf forms and colors. Boxwood contains alkaloids that are toxic to deer, as well as humans. Other good shrubs or trees include Green Giant Arborvitae, Spartan Juniper, Holly, and Rhododendron.
Deer don't eat peonies ... In northern New Jersey, peonies are the perfect plant. You don't have to irrigate peonies. You don't have to spray chemicals on peonies. They're natural, organic, easy on the water table, easy on the land. ...
Wildflower: Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). Grows well in partial shade. Will reseed. Blooms in early spring.
Osmanthus heterophyllus, or false holly, is an evergreen shrub whose sometimes spiny leaves are unattractive to deer.
Florida and Asian anise trees (Illicium), fragrant, glossy evergreen leaves and star-like flowers make for a beautiful plant, ability to withstand both deer and shade
Mahonia bealei. Commonly called leatherleaf mahonia, it yields blue fruits after the flowers and has spiny leaves that are similar to a regular holly.
Danae racemosa, or poet’s laurel, low-growing evergreen with a graceful, weeping habit and high shade tolerance.
Below a list of plants deer rarely ear
Ageratum
Allegheny Spruce
American Holly
Angel’s Trumpet
Anise
Anise Hyssop
Annual Vinca
Arrowwood Viurnum
Autumn Crocus
Barberry
Barrenwort
Basket of Gold
Bayberry
Bearberry
Big Bluestem
Bigleaf Goldenray
Bishop’s Weed
Bleeding Heart
Blue Fescue
Blue Mist Shrub
Blue Oat Grass
Bluebell
Bottlebrush Buckeye
Broom
Bugleweed
Bush Cinquefoil
Butter & Eggs
Buttercup
Butterfly Bush
Cactus
Catmint
Christmas Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Clump Bamboo
Common Boxwood
Common Foxglove
Common Tansy
Corydalis
Crown Imperial, Firtilia
Daffodil
Dame’s Rocket
Daphne
Devil’s Walking Stick
Drooping leucothoe
Dusty Miller
Dwarf Alberta Spruce
European Ginger
False Camomile
False Indigo
Feather Reed Grass
Flowering Tobacco
Forget-me-not
Fountain Grass
Fragrant Sumac
Garden Sage
Germander
Giant Japanese Silver Grass
Giant Reed
Golden Bamboo
Greek Jerusalem Sage
Hakonechloa
Hard Rush
Hayscented Fern
Heath
Heather
Heliotrope
Holly Fern
Horehound
Horseradish
Hyssop
Indian Grass
Irish
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Japanese Black Pine
Japanese Blood Grass
Japanese Painted Fern
Japanese Pieris, Andromeda
Japanese Plum Yew
Japanese Sedge
Japanese Silver Grass
Japanese Skimmia
Japanese Sweet Flag
John T. Morris Holly
Katsura Tree
Lamb’s Ear
Large Blue June Grass
Larkspur
Lavender
Lavender Cotton
Leatherleaf Mahonia
Lemon Balm
Lenten or Christmas Rose
Lily of the Vallley
Little Bluestem
Lungwort
Lyida Morris Holly
Lyme Grass
Marjoram
May Apple
Meadow Rue
Mimoasa
Mint
Monkshood
Moonglow Juniper
Mountain Pieris
New York Fern
Northern Sea Oats
Oregano
Oregon Grape Holly
Oriental Fountain Grass
Ornamental Onion
Ostrich Fern
Pacysandra
Pampus Grass
Paper Birch
Pawpaw
Peony
Pitch Pine
Poppy
Pot Marigold
Potentilla, Cinquefoil
Prince of Wales Juniper
Purple Moor Grass
Purple Rock-Cress
Ravenna Grass
Red Elderberry
Red Pine
River Birch
Rock-Cress
Rocket Ligularia
Rodgers Flower
Rose Campion
Rosemary
Royal Fern
Rue
Russian Cypress
Russian Olive
Russian Sage
Sensitive Fern
Siberian Bugloss
Siberian Squill
Silver Mound
Small Globe Thistle
Snapdragon
Snowdrops
Snow-on-the-Mountain
Spider Flower
Spotted Deadnettle
Spurge
Statice
Strawflower
Sweet Alyssum
Sweet Box
Sweet Woodruff
Switch Grass
Tarragon
Threadleaf Coreopsis
Thyme
Variegated Purple Moor Grass
Weeping Love Grass
Wild Ginger
Winter Aconite
Wood Fern
Yucca
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