Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Deer

I'd like to compare notes as to what the deer are eating or not eating in your garden - I don't think there's really much truth in the 'deer resistant' label with few exceptions. I think deer just have personal preferences.
My deer are restricted to the front garden, where they are really enjoying lily buds and the tops off my Phlox paniculata. They seem to leave everything else - Baptisia, rose campion, astilbe, roses, day lilies, lavendar, ornamental grasses, echinacea.

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  1. In my garden hostas seem to be a favourite of the deer. They have recently had a nibble on several Norway Spruce.

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  2. Today I took someone around the rock garden at the college. I paid special attention to what the deer had been browsing. They had tasted the edges of a few leaves of Hosta sieboldiana. They left Hosta Cherry Berry alone. The remianing plants - all Hosta fortunei types, were reduced to a bouqet of bristling petioles

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  3. I heard about a deer prevention method on the radio the other day, which one would NOT recommend: a fellow strung a few rows of fishline around his garden. He said because the deer can't see it, they freak out when they bump into the strands. Bad news if you ask me... people, kids, pets, and others can't see them either and no deer damage is worth injury to loved ones!

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  4. Deer arrived in the veggie garden yesterday evening (August 24). I saw the doe first, later she came back with twin fawns, still spotted. They were munching beans.

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  5. Deer finished the beans and left about 3 green tomatoes!!!

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  6. The deer have arrived back at my parents' garden... beans are finished off, tomatoes, grapes. They were grazing on the mower clippings the other morning. I had put a few cobs of corn out for the pheasants - a whole host of creatures had a field day with that! Deer, racoon, crows, and the pheasants may have gotten a nibble....

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