The Tansy plant is a great one to include in your garden to deter bugs. Plus, like many of the plants on this list it has beautiful flowers that will give your garden color!
Plant the Tansy plant to repel beetles, aphids, moths, ants, squash bugs, cabbage loopers, and more!

Another beautiful flowering plant to add to your garden. Nasturtiums are more than just beautiful though, they are great bug repellers! Nasturtiums are said to repel whiteflies, squash bugs, aphids, beetles and more!

Basil is a great herb to add to the garden because it is dual purpose. Not only does it work hard to repel bugs, but it can be picked and used for cooking as well!
Plant Basil to repel the asparagus beetle, whiteflies, and the carrot fly.

Another beneficial herb to add to the garden. Pick the leaves to make teas or other culinary dishes, and plant in the garden to repel bugs. This plant is said to help repel aphids, whiteflies, and squash bugs.

These flowers are so pretty and cheerful, a great addition to any garden or landscaping! Petunias are more than just a pretty flower though, they are tough bug repellers as well! Plant these to repel squash bugs, aphids, tomato worms, beetles, and more.

Another beneficial herb that also repels pests. Dill is said to repel aphids, spider mites, cabbage loopers, squash bugs, and tomato hornworms.

Thyme is more than just an herb to add to your spaghetti sauce! This potent herb is a great addition to your garden in that it is said to repel cabbage loopers, whiteflies, tomato hornworms, and cabbage maggots.

Wormwood is said to be a great herb to repel ants, whiteflies, cabbage loopers and maggots, carrot flies, and codling moths.

An herb that is in the same family as peppermint, this minty plant is more than just a culinary plant. It is great for repelling moths, beetles, squash bugs, ants, aphids, and cabbage loopers.

Another pretty addition to your garden that will provide bright color! Marigolds do more than make pretty bouquets though. They are great for repelling pesky insects. Marigolds repel lice, whiteflies, and aphids!

Garlic is a great addition when cooking and when keeping the bugs away. Plant garlic around your garden to repel Japanese beetles, carrot flies, root maggots, aphids, and cabbage loopers.

Parsley, another edible plant, is used in the garden to repel asparagus beetles.

Cilantro is grown from coriander seeds. This herb is a favorite in my family and a must for Mexican culinary dishes. It is also said to help repel spider mites and aphids in the garden as well!

Rosemary is a plant that you want to have not only for cooking but for the garden as well. It is a great herb to repel roaches, cabbage loopers, carrot flies, slugs, and snails.

Plant fennel in the garden to repel aphids, snails and slugs.

The only downside to catnip, is that it can attract cats! But otherwise it's a very beneficial plant in that it repels ants, Japanese beetles, squash bugs, aphids, and cockroaches.

Don't chives have such pretty purple flowers? Not only are these herbs good to eat, but they are pretty and repel bugs! Chives are said to repel Japanese beetles, aphids, and carrot flies.

I absolutely love these flowers! They are so pretty! They also repel roaches, silverfish, lice, ants, beetles, and spider mites!

How beautiful are these flowers? And they are huge! Plant these unique flowers in your garden to repel slugs, worms, cabbage worms, carrot flies, and aphids.