Depending on where you are where you are located, you might have issues with deer eating or damaging your trees and plants.  We often have people ask us what they can do to avoid the problem. 

One of the best ways to keep deer away from your plants would be to build a fence.  Unfortunately, that is not always possible.  There are some measures that can be taken, depending on the problem that you are having.  It seems that the two most common problems are that deer often eat the trees / plants and that deer will scrape their antlers against trees resulting in damage to the bark. 

Here are a few tips that might help.  There are several repellents that are on the market that you could try.  We have had some positive feedback on these items.  Deer Away and Hinder are two examples.  They mix with water and can be sprayed or “painted” on the items that you are trying to keep the deer from.  This creates a scent that is unappealing to deer, but should be undetectable to humans.    

For trees, you could try bark protectors.  This would be more for the antler issue after the trees are a little more mature.  You can get vinyl wraps or plastic mesh.  Either will help some with this issue.

Last but not least, you could try sticking to “deer resistant” plants.  There are several trees and plants that tend to be less attractive to deer.  Below is a list of items that tend to be resistant to deer.  We will try and keep this list as current as possible.  Deer still could eat these items, but it is less common then other plants.

Deer Resistant Trees and Shrubs: