Plan your landscape design to deter the deer and alleviate damage.
Deer are undeniably in Lower Michigan, and their presence can face serious challenges for the landscape design of your house. With the spring planting on the horizon, while designing and planning new outdoor areas, you should consider planting “deer -proof” green to protect your investment.
However, remember that a hungry deer is indiscriminately and nibbles almost everything. While no plant is completely safe before your appetite, Hirsch tend to avoid an aromatic, vague, hairy leaves or plants such as ferns, grasses and sedge.
After the resources “Hirschfest native plants for mid-Michigan” resource from the Wilder Red Zedern chapter in Lansing, Michigan, you will find some types of plants below that rather avoid to mention your landscape:
- Baneberry
- Wild onion nod
- Fabric
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- Wilder ginger
- Milkweed species
- Wilder indigo
- Harebell
- Black Snakeroot
- Coreopsis species
- Purple cone flowers
- Rattler snake master
- Joe-Pye weeds
- Boneset
- Flowering trace
- Wild geranium
- Prairing
- Wrong sunflower
- Alum root
- Virginia Waterleaf
- Iris – blue flag
- Blazing star
- Blue lobelia
- Virginia Bluebells
- Bee balm
- Horsemint
- Beamton (Penstenon Sp.)
- May Apple
- Solomon's seal
- Black -eyed susan
- Blood root
- Rag word
- Blue -eyed grass
- Celandine (wood) poppy
- Spider word
- Vervain species
- Iron speed
- Culvers root
- Golden Alexander
- New Jersey Tea
- Virgo
- Witch hazel
- Great St. John's wort
- juniper
- Spice bush
The expansion of the Michigan State University has the resource “Smart Gardening to deter deer”, with which homeowners can also identify other techniques to alleviate deer damage to their landscapes.
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