Do Deer Eat Geraniums?
Deer do NOT eat geraniums.
If you have a deer problem and are looking for deer resistant plants for your landscape, planting geraniums is a good choice. Many experts agree that no plant is one-hundred percent resistant against a starving deer, but Geraniums do make the list of plants that deer find less appealing than others.
Additional Deer Resistant Flowers
Cornell University has compiled a list of plants that are deer resistant and are as follows:
Astilbe, baby's breath, balloon flower, basket-of-gold, beebalm, bellfower, bergenia, bleeding heart, blue star anemone, boltonia, bugbane, buttercup, butterfly bush, butterfly weed, candytuft, chives, cinnamon fern, cinquefoil, coreopsis, cornflower, daffodil, evening primrose, false indigo, ferverfew, garlic chives, gas plant, geum, goldenrod, interrupted fern, Jacob's-ladder, joe-pye weed, lamb's ear,mint, oregano, Oriental poppy, ornamental onion, ostrich fern, painted daisy, perennial blue flax, ribbon grass, pinks, primrose, pulmonaria, purple coneflower, queen-of-the-prairie, rhubarb, sage, scilla, shasta daisy, soapwart, spike gayfeather, sweet william, tansy, tiger lily, turtlehead, veronica, vinca, wormwood, yarrow, and yucca.

." University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County"Plants Deer Will Not Eat." http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/Deerplants.shtml
Cornell University "Plants Poisonous to Livestock"http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/php/plants.php?action=indiv&byname=common&keynum=30
"Do Deer Eat Geraniums?." Sophisticated Edge. N.p., n.d. Web. . <http://www.sophisticatededge.com/do-deer-eat-geraniums.html>.

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