{"id":5259,"date":"2013-10-15T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2013-08-20T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:07:03","slug":"popular-landscape-trees-deer-dont-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/10\/15\/popular-landscape-trees-deer-dont-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Landscape Trees Deer Don\u2019t Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Red Buckeye<\/p><\/div>
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Flowering Dogwood<\/p><\/div>
\nThis title is somewhat misleading. Deer will eat or sample (nibble) on any landscape plant, particularly if they are hungry enough. Deer also do not read lists of plants they\u2019re suppose to leave alone.<\/p>\n

The following list of deer resistant plants is a sampling from reports across the U.S. It does not include every tree reported. Deer species and numbers vary across this big country. A deer\u2019s food palate may also differ from one region to another. It also depends on how hungry the numbers of deer in an area may be. <\/p>\n

Some native trees such as American beech, buckeyes, green ash, persimmon, hophornbeam, and flowering dogwood are important food resources for deer and other wildlife. But, they do little significant damage to their host tree(s). If you are trying to introduce young host trees into a landscape, you should fence them off for 3-5 years until they become larger and better established. Finally, prune up low branches out of reach of deer feeding.<\/p>\n

Abnormally high deer populations starved for a lack of their favorite foods (mast) will eat or browse on almost any plant. This is a survival reaction. To truly protect plants from deer when deer numbers are unusually high, a tall fence or reinforced netting may be your best options. <\/p>\n

Deer Resistant Tree List:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum<\/em>)
\nJapanese Maple (Acer palmatum<\/em>)
\nStriped maple (Acer pensylvanicum<\/em>)
\nNorway Maple (Acer platanoides<\/em>)
\nRed Maple (Acer rubrum<\/em>)
\nSugar Maple (Acer saccharum<\/em>)
\nOhio Buckeye (Aesculus octandra<\/em>)
\nRed Buckeye (Aesculus pavia<\/em>)
\nMimosa (Albizia julibrissin<\/em>)
\nDowny Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea<\/em>)
\nShadblow (Amelanchier canadensis<\/em>)
\nAllegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis<\/em>)
\nPawpaw (Asimina triloba<\/em>)
\nHimalayan Birch (Betula jacquemontii<\/em>)
\nYellow Birch (Betula lutea<\/em>)
\nRiver Birch (Betula nigra<\/em>)
\nPaper Birch (Betula papyrifera<\/em>)
\nEuropean White Birch (Betula pendula<\/em>)
\nEuropean Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus<\/em>)
\nDeodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara<\/em>)
\nKatsura Tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum<\/em>)
\nChinese Fringe Tree (Chionanthus retusus<\/em>)
\nFlowering Dogwood (Cornus florida<\/em>)
\nChinese (Kousa) Dogwood (Cornus kousa<\/em>)
\nWinter King Hawthorn (Crataegus viridis<\/em> ‘Winter King’)
\nJapanese Cedar (Cryptomeria japonica<\/em>)
\nLeyland Cypress (Cupressocyparis x leylandii<\/em>)
\nPersimmon (Diospyros virginiana<\/em>)
\nAmerican Beech (Fagus grandifolia<\/em>)
\nEuropean Beech (Fagus sylvatica<\/em>)
\nGreen Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica<\/em>)
\nGinkgo (Ginkgo biloba<\/em>)
\nHoney Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos<\/em>)
\nCarolina Silverbell (Halesia diptera<\/em>)
\nAmerican Holly (Ilex opaca<\/em>)
\nEastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana<\/em>)
\nGoldenrain Tree (Koelreuteria paniculata<\/em>)
\nTulip or Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera<\/em>)
\nSouthern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora<\/em>)
\nDawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides<\/em>)
\nEastern Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana<\/em>)
\nSourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum<\/em>)
\nSpruces (Picea spp.<\/em>)
\nJapanese Red Pine (Pinus densiflora<\/em>)
\nLimber Pine (Pinus flexilis<\/em>)
\nEastern White Pine (Pinus strobus<\/em>)
\nFlowering Cherry (Prunus serrulata<\/em>)
\nDouglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii<\/em>)
\nSassafras Tree (Sassafras albidum<\/em>)
\nBald Cypress (Taxodium distichum<\/em>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This title is somewhat misleading. Deer will eat or sample (nibble) on any landscape plant, particularly if they are hungry enough. Deer also do not read lists of plants they\u2019re suppose to leave alone. The following list of deer resistant plants is a sampling from reports across the U.S. It does not include every tree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[834,873,868,669,875,1049,851,820,968,695,947,857,1023,1051,686,639,862,865,616,627,952,902,976,630,831,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5290,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}