Rabbit Resistant Plants

Rabbits will eat anything if they are hungry enough. Plants they usually avoid have fuzzy or aromatic leaves, and a bristly or tough texture. Listed here are their least favorite to munch on and will discourage deer from grazing your garden!

Trees

  • Birch
  • Catalpa
  • Chestnut
  • Ginkgo
  • Hemlock
  • Honeylocust
  • Larch
  • Magnolia
  • Mountain Ash
  • Oak
  • Pines: Austrian
  • Redbud
  • Spruce

Shrubs

  • Azalea
  • Barberry
  • Cotoneaster
  • Forsythia
  • Honeysuckle
  • Juniper
  • Lilac
  • Mockorange
  • Potentilla
  • Snowberry
  • Spirea
  • Spruce
  • Virburnum, Nannyberry

Perennials

  • Alchemilla
  • Aquilegia
  • Artemisia
  • Aruncus
  • Baptisia
  • Bergenia
  • Brunnera
  • Coreopsis
  • Dicentra
  • Euphorbia
  • Gaillardia
  • Geranium
  • Hemerocallis
  • Leucanthemum
  • Lobelia
  • Monarda
  • Paeonia
  • Perovskia
  • Phlox, Creeping
  • Salvia
  • Sedum
  • Veronica