Thanks. I was thinking junipers and pines, but also crabapples, some pyrochomeles, and some elms. Cats up there would be a problem to keep. There is no barn or house attached to the property, but the near by creek could provide coons and possums, maybe even fox. People involved in thsis plot of land will do totally organic gardening. The place is on a lower hill in Portola Valley where the gophers did in a fig tree from the bottom. I wouldn't mind if the gophers did some root pruning. but I do need them to cooperate.

Kits

Jim Gremel wrote:

On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Kitsune Miko wrote:

I have access to a growing ground. It is frequented by deer and root
eating gophers. I can use wire baskets in the ground to protect
agains the gophers and for the short trees I can also screen the tops.
Are there plants that gophers and/or deer don't like?

Kits

Most conifers are safe - you wouldn't need wire baskets.

Gophers loved the hornbeams I grew, but they never killed any. The best
preventative for gopher damage is a liberal application of cats. Here,
three cats reduced the thriving gopher population to a worrisome, but
apparently insignificant threat.

Jim





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