Low-Maintenance Deer-Resistant Evergreen Shrubs

Evergreen shrubs that need little pruning and mostly escape deer browsing. Compare size, growth rate, and hardiness zone.

Partridgeberry

Coast Leucothoe

Albanian Spurge

Cactus Pear

Shrubs give a garden its bones, and a badly browsed one stays lopsided for years. These shrubs also keep their leaves through winter. There are flowering plants here, and most carry the colour through the season. Some of them take dry spells once settled.

shrubs: 140
hardiness zones: 4 to 12

Deer leave these shrubs alone, and they still flower. There are shrubs flowering in spring through to late autumn, with colour running on when the rest of the garden has finished. Most of the colour is white and yellow.

spring: 87
summer: 74
late autumn: 35

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

borders: 82
hedges: 65