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Sage is one of the few plants that has research to suggest it can actually keep mosquitoes away. One study found that just one pot of sage can give up to 32% protection from some types of mosquitoes.
Plant Image Pests Artemisias: repels insects, [2] including ants, cabbage looper, cabbage maggot, carrot fly, codling moth, flea beetles, whiteflies, the Cabbage White, and the Small White, as well as mice [3] Basil: repels flies, including mosquitoes [2] [4] the carrot fly, asparagus beetles and whiteflies [3] Borage: repels tomato hornworm ...
The area of the bed where you plant should be a few inches lower than this barrier trench to help maintain water runoff away from the house. Photo: Yesim Sahin / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty ...
Cascabela thevetia is cultivated as an ornamental plant, and planted as large flowering shrub or small ornamental tree standards in gardens and parks in temperate climates. In frost prone areas it is container plant, in the winter season brought inside a greenhouse or as a house plant. It tolerates most soils and is drought tolerant. [5]
Pyrethrum (from Chrysanthemum species, particularly C. cinerariifolium and C. coccineum) is an effective plant-based repellent. [118] Electronic insect repellent devices that produce ultrasounds intended to keep away insects (and mosquitoes) are marketed.
Mosquito repellent plants can help clear your outdoor space of the insects. Try these in your garden for mosquito control.
Shasta Daisy. Shasta daisies are cheerful-looking plants that last for years in the landscape. Use them a trap crop for aphids, says Rose. These plants are drought-tolerant once established.
Fittonia (or nerve plant or mosaic plant) is a genus of evergreen perennial flowering plants in the acanthus ('bear’s britches') family, Acanthaceae. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical forested areas in northern and western South America, mainly Perú. [2] The most commonly cultivated species is F. albivenis and its range of ...