Fast-Growing Deer-Resistant Ground Covers

Ground covers that spread quickly and mostly escape deer browsing. See growth rate, spread, and the light each one needs. Split into narrower lists below.

More specific collections

Devil's Darning Needles

Cloud-Loving Hardy Ice Plant

Christmas Rose

Common Yarrow

Ground cover is the planting that holds bare soil, which is the part of a garden that washes first. Every one of them is quick to establish. Most are chosen for the flowers.

ground covers: 64
hardiness zones: 3 to 12

Nothing about deer-resistant ground covers is plain. There are ground covers flowering in spring, summer and late autumn, and the final flowers carry the garden into the cold. Most of the colour is purple, white and yellow.

spring: 40
summer: 47
late autumn: 14

The breadth is the point: the range is wide enough that no two borders need look alike. Clematis has the most entries, and mass planting and borders are the commonest uses.

mass planting: 36
borders: 35