"Skyrocket" Juniper
"Skyrocket" is an attractive plant with its blue-green foliage and is tough enough for use in windbreaks and privacy hedges. It is advertised as deer-resistant, but sometimes is damaged by hungry deer.
How do you keep deer from eating junipers?
Fencing
- Pound T-posts or rebar into the ground with a hammer spaced at 3 to 5 yards apart around the entire blue juniper.
- Position the bottom edge of plastic or polypropylene deer fencing that measure 8 feet tall directly against the ground.
What evergreens do deer not eat?
Which evergreen shrubs for privacy are deer resistant?
- Common boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) ...
- Japanese pieris (Pieris japonica) ...
- Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) ...
- Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) ...
- Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis) ...
- Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
