Plants Keep Wasps Away. Similarly peppermint oil and essential oil blends like lemongrass clove and geranium can also repel. With its strong fragrant aroma Cymbopogon Lemongrass is another plant that wasps cannot stand and will readily avoid.
Although this is usually a tree there are many varieties of Eucalyptus bushes that you can plant in your yard. The repellent properties of plants lie primarily in their oils. As have those of the plants mentioned above.
Of the plants that keep wasps away research has only determined how some of them work.
If you have fruit trees harvest the fruit when ripe and be sure to pick up all the fallen fruit. These will not only work to repel wasps but also keep mosquitoes away. It is a very effective as well as ongoing method of wasp control. Then set the lemon halves on a dish wherever you want to keep wasps and bees away.
