Low-Maintenance Deer-Resistant Perennials for Partial Shade

Low-upkeep perennials for partial shade that tend to escape deer damage. Compare bloom time, height, and hardiness zone.

Butterfly Milkweed

Baptisia

Tall Anemone

Cabbage-Leaf Coneflower

Perennials come back from the same roots each year, which is why borders get built from them. These perennials are also the low-upkeep ones. There are plants here for ground that dries out, and some of them cope with it. Most earn their place on the flowers.

perennials: 884
hardiness zones: 3 to 12

Common St. John's-Wort

American Pokeweed

Equinox Flower

Chandelier Plant

Nothing about deer-resistant perennials is plain. You can find perennials here that flower in spring, summer and late autumn, with colour running on when the rest of the garden has finished. Most of the colour is white, purple and yellow.

spring: 425
summer: 421
late autumn: 187

Cranberry Bush Viburnum

Common Sage

Bishop's Hat

Common Yarrow

The variety runs deeper than the type suggests: there is enough variety to mix and match without repeating yourself. Epimedium, Salvia and Viburnum have the most entries, and borders and naturalising are the commonest uses.

borders: 463
naturalising: 347