Stephen M. Henning wrote:
"pluckey" wrote:


What kind of flowers, shrubs, bushes can be planted without fear of deer
eating them?


Plastic ones. I am not kidding. When hungry enough deer will eat
anything. The only things in my yard they have spared is spruce trees,
but others have reported problems there also.

My problem is mainly in the winter. I use deer netting on my evergreen
plants such as rhododendrons and conifers. I have to remove it in the
spring before they start growing or they grow through it. The deer
netting works for me. The deer are always trying to get under the fence
and I am always find better ways to use the deer netting.

The best repellant is a good dog. All of the others work for a while
but when the deer get hungry, they don't stop them.


I thought that the plastic "deer netting" was the answer until last
winter. Those ****ed deer chewed holes thru the netting and proceeded
to not-so-nicely prune my globe and emerald arbor vitae. By the way, a
staple food of our deer in the winter are the evergreens. I commonly
see them browsing on lower branches of my mature red pines. Also, they
completely destroyed a sunflower seed feeder outside my window. They
are getting as bad as the squirrels.

Bill in far NW Wisconsin

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Tony, Wisconsin
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