Plants Deer Don't Like. Yarrow is perfect if you want generous blooms of yellow red pink magenta or orange flowers that deer find unattractive and foul smelling. In addition cherry trees tend to maintain small delicate trunks for quite a few years.
There are many plants that deer dont usually find tasty. Cultivars with strong odors such as onions garlic and fennel are not palatable to deer. Deer usually also avoid root vegetables which require digging and prickly vegetables such as cucumbers and squashes with hairy leaves.
If you have a lot of deer around your property bucks may use these small trees to rub their antlers during their mating season.
When theyre hungry deer will treat your yard like an all-you-can-eat buffet. This is also known as sage plants. Deer dont like the plant called butterfly flower and there are many other reasons you should plant this in your garden. Cultivars with strong odors such as onions garlic and fennel are not palatable to deer.
