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Deer stay away from anything prickly, anything hairy. This is an easy way to select plants you are attracted to at the garden center. Walk down the aisles and only look at either prickly shrubs and flowers (includes shasta daisies and many hollies), or those that are covered in dense hairs (ornamental tobacco?). Deer love anything that looks like salad (hosta, pieris)with thin, smooth leaves.
8) motion detector sprinkler head- UPS man was not amused!
Real lol'd when I read this
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Deer ate the flowers from my hydrangeas. Will they come back?
The flowers will. They're pretty hardy. I had a kid from the neighborhood do landscaping for me one spring and I didn't ask him to touch the Hydrangea but he decided to cut the 4 foot high branches down almost to the ground. I actually teared up when I saw it. Hydrangeas set their flower buds each fall so I had no flowers that year but it rebounded about half it's former size in one growing season.
I don't have much experience with deer repellents but after reading what everyone has had to say here, I decided that when the time comes, I'll plant only deer resistant items in the front yard, and the all the showy, savory items in the back. Protected by a tall fence (HOA permitting) and a separate veggie garden protected by a second fence or a 'cage' type enclosure.
On Long Island, I typically put my nicest ornamentals in the front yard for everyone to enjoy but my worst pest here are bunnies and I've been able to thwart them with something called RabbitOut. It's made by a company called DeerOut. They claim their repellent works:
My parents tried it with some success but they didn't keep up with the applications. Also since there's oil in it, I think that would damage flower buds.
I'm having challenges with bunnies and deer in my yard. The bunnies are huge and there are a family of 5 deer that love my wooded portion of the back yard and now have entered the non-wooded part which is resulting in eating everything.
I'm on the fence about putting up a fence, so reading about alternatives.
The deer have already eaten most of the euonymus shrubs I planted last year, the bunnies I'm sure are participating in eating various perennials, bulb plants etc.
I love wildlife so I really don't want to close them out...thinking about putting up deer fencing just around the shrubs/flowers but that may look hideous and you won't be able to enjoy the yard landscape...ugh lol
Yard will look to plain and boring to just grass over everything...lol
I'm having challenges with bunnies and deer in my yard. The bunnies are huge and there are a family of 5 deer that love my wooded portion of the back yard and now have entered the non-wooded part which is resulting in eating everything.
I'm on the fence about putting up a fence, so reading about alternatives.
The deer have already eaten most of the euonymus shrubs I planted last year, the bunnies I'm sure are participating in eating various perennials, bulb plants etc.
I love wildlife so I really don't want to close them out...thinking about putting up deer fencing just around the shrubs/flowers but that may look hideous and you won't be able to enjoy the yard landscape...ugh lol
Yard will look to plain and boring to just grass over everything...lol
no kudzu posted pictures of her deer fence and I couldn't even see it. The post and wire ones are much less noticeable, at least to me.
These could get expensive probably but they look good to me
On the tops of the posts, I put PVC connectors, and run aircraft-grade vinyl-covered cable through them to keep falling branches from destroying the fence. Sling Tee PVC Fittings | FORMUFIT
I cut 2 1/2' sections of 1" conduit and pound at least a foot and a half of it into the ground every ten feet, then slip the poles into them. (with the connectors already attached). I roll out the fencing, attaching it to the poles with zip ties. Lastly, I run the cable through the connectors and attach it to 4x4s on both ends of the fence run. The poles bend but don't break, so the fence tends to snap back if a deer runs into it, unless it's attacking it with its hooves. We're doing a section of the yard at a time and hope to get the whole thing done in a year or two.
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