Deer-Resistant Shrubs for Full Sun

Shrubs for sunny beds that tend to escape deer damage. Compare mature size, growth rate, and water needs. Split into narrower lists below.

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Shrubs give a garden its bones, and a badly browsed one stays lopsided for years. These also take full sun. There are drought-tolerant plants here, and some of them take the heat once established. Most are chosen for the flowers.

shrubs: 450
hardiness zones: 3 to 12

These shrubs still put on a display, which is the part people expect to lose. There are shrubs flowering in spring through to late autumn, and the last of them hold when most of the border has gone over. Most of the colour is white, yellow and purple.

spring: 289
summer: 192
late autumn: 75

Cranberry Bush Viburnum

Bridal-Wreath Spiraea

Flowering Dogwood

Bay Laurel

A single group, but not a single look: the range is wide enough that no two borders need look alike. Viburnum, Spiraea and Cornus have the most entries, and borders and hedges are the commonest uses.

borders: 227
hedges: 182