I thought I would post some images (before it was too late) of the relatively few remaining plants in our garden that have not been savaged by deer…
They are contrary ba**ards, these creatures. One year they are picky customers – turning their noses up at all manner of succulence. The next – they will (and do!) eat anything. If it’s green and has leaves – it’s lunch!
This makes planning a deer-proof garden almost impossible. If one is unable – as are we – to circle one’s little plot with a rugged deer-proof fence of some variety then one has little choice but to search out plants that deer don’t care to eat. That would be a good sight easier if they didn’t change their minds from season to season.
Purveyors of plants like to advertise particular combinations of perennials as being deer-proof. I think the deer just see this as a challenge.
“Doesn’t matter if I don’t much care for this – I am going to choke it down anyway just to make a point! Hah!”
Once one has reached the point of imagining deer internal monologues it is probably time to stop, though…
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