Fast-Growing Deer-Resistant Trees

Trees that reach screen height quickly and mostly escape deer browsing. Compare growth rate, mature size, and hardiness zone.

Golden Rain Tree

Blood Currant

Chinese Chestnut

Big Tree

Trees take years to grow into their space, so a planting mistake is expensive to correct. A tree deer leave alone keeps the growth it makes, and that is what turns a quick tree into a quick planting. Most need very little after their first year.

trees: 94
hardiness zones: 2 to 12
mature height: 13 to 100 ft (4 to 30 m)

Deer-resistant trees do not have to be colourless. You can find trees here that flower in spring through to summer, so there is colour well into the cold. Most of the colour is yellow, white and purple.

spring: 66
summer: 29

Eastern White Pine

American Red Oak

Babylon Weeping Willow

American Plane Tree

These are not a one-note group: there are trees here for specimen planting and woodland edges. They run from small garden trees to large shade trees, so the scale of the planting is there to choose. Pinus, Quercus and Salix have the most entries.

specimen planting: 56
woodland edges: 37