Most gardeners around Douglas County are well acquainted with the frustration of spending hours planting, weeding, watering and caring for plants only to have them devoured in the night by deer. Don’t get discouraged, use plants that the deer don’t like.

Over the past 50 years Youngs Garden has been recommending deer-resistant plants to gardeners in the Roseburg area. This is a list of gardener’s favorites for a yard where deer are a problem.

*Safe in some yards, damaged by deer in others