I've had problems with deer and my roses for years (25 roses). I've looked
for solutions and found many ideas. Our deer are very tame - they don't run
when you walk toward them, so human hairor soap was not going to work. I have
had good luck with hot pepper spray, if used often enough. The best thing I
have found was by accident. We had black spot on some of the leaves. I
sprayed the roses with Ortho Rosepride and it cured the black spot. The deer
also left all of the roses alone. I spray it on all of my roses and hostas
weekly and after a rain and have not had a problem for 3 years.

Good luck

In article , elfa
wrote:
Anyone have any simple ideas (other than putting a fence around each rose?

Is there some kind of spray?

I'm in Zone 9 (north of San Francisco) and we have deer, skunk, opossum, and
raccoon that come out at night. I don't mind any of them coming around (except
when I found a dead opossum at the bottom of the pool) ...it's just that the
deer are getting to my blooms before I do.

thanks

elfa