Texas Gardening: Any Ideas on Perrenials Deer won't eat?, 1 by morganc

morganc wrote:
Hi,

I remember when we were putting in our original landscaping 3 years ago and I asked our landscaper what were the deer resistant plants we could plant in the non-fenced front yard. He said "I'll get the list",.....went to his truck and returned with a blank sheet of paper. Basically, he said, if the deer are hungry enough, they will eat almost anything.

Three years in the Hill Country has almost proven him correct. The exceptions to his rule (so far) seem to be.....Sages; which includes all kinds of Salvia, (Jeruselum Sage grows lovely yellow flowers and doubles in size in one year), Rosemary....they don't touch that, Copper Canyon Daisy....just smells too bad for them....Grasses, Oleander, Gold Lantana (although they eat the purple, and red), Cycads....like Sagos and such, and Horsetail Reeds (although they are very invasive).

I'm sure there are more....I just haven't planted them....yet.

In this picture, you can see how they left the Copper Canyon Daisy, grasses, and Oleander, but almost stripped the Primrose Jasmine of leaves.