Low-Maintenance Deer-Resistant Shrubs for Partial Shade

Low-upkeep shrubs for partial shade that tend to escape deer damage. Compare mature size, growth rate, and hardiness zone.

Boy's Love

Bayberry

Hills of Snow

Common Pawpaw

A shrub holds the middle ground between a border plant and a tree, and it is the layer deer reach first. These shrubs are also the low-upkeep ones. There are plants here for ground that dries out, and some of them cope with it. Most are chosen for the flowers.

shrubs: 275
hardiness zones: 3 to 12

Deer leave these shrubs alone, and they still flower. These shrubs flower in spring, summer and late autumn, and the last of them hold when most of the border has gone over. Most of the colour is white and yellow.

spring: 188
summer: 110
late autumn: 42

Cranberry Bush Viburnum

Flowering Dogwood

Tatarian Honeysuckle

Euphorbia

The breadth is the point: the range is wide enough that no two borders need look alike. Viburnum, Cornus and Lonicera have the most entries, and borders and hedges are the commonest uses.

borders: 165
hedges: 133