Deer Resistant Cutting Flowers

Close-up of pink peony flowers
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Be sure to read my page on How to Have a Flower Garden When You Live With Deer. I give advice on how to protect your flower gardens from deer. And it describes how deer behavior can change throughout the year based on their seasonal needs, so you can know what to expect and what to do when. And what and where to get the materials you need to keep your flowers and all plants safe from hungry deer.

Since I live in an area with a heavy deer load I’m always protective of my flowers. I grow most of them in a fenced area.

Even flowers with good deer resistance may get eaten at times. For this reason I tend to not risk it and I fence them.

The ones I don’t worry about at all are lavender, irises, oreganos (culinary and ornamental), rosemary, daffodils, yarrow, Artemisia, santolina, and many greenery plants.

Deer Resistant Cutting Flowers

Agastache
Mixed bouquet of flowers with silvery-grey foliage, in a white pitcher
Artemisia
Pale purple asters flower in a bouquet
Aster
Baptisia
Bright pink tufted flower
Bee Balm
White calla lily with yellow proboscis coming out
Calla Lily
Cream colored carnation with magenta edging
Carnations
Stem with brilliant red tubular flowers
Crocosmia
Daffodils
Lemon yellow daylily
Daylily
Purple echinacea flower
Echinacea
Spiky blue ball-shaped flower.
Globe Thistle
Freesias
Little white daisies in a bouquet
Feverfew
Full petaled yellow flower
Golden Glow
Purple lavender in a vase.
Lavender
Bouquet with purple flowers on ornamental oregano stems and yellow flowers
Ornamental Oregano
Pink and white peony flower
Peony
Breadseed Poppy
Purple statice flowers with a butterfly on them
Statice, annual
Golden yellow flat cluster of tiny flowers.
Yarrow, all types

In some areas these are fairly deer resistant

Dahlia
Daylily (sometimes just the flower may get eaten)
Marigolds
Gloriosa Daisy: Rudbeckia fulgida not R. hirta (R. hirta is the better cut flower)
Scabiosa, perennial, often the smaller landscape bedding types
Veronica: perennials
Zinnias

Plants that are good for greenery with good deer resistance

Boxwood
Eucalyptus
Ferns: Western Sword Fern, Leatherleaf Fern
Lamb’s Ears: Stachys byzantine (good for dried arrangements)
Rosemary

Again, for more details on how to garden with deer read How to Have a Flower Garden When You Live with Deer.


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Two deer munching on leaves.
Doe and fawn munching on leaves.

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