Re: Weekend plants and stuff

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Weekend plants and stuff
• From: &* T* <m*@hort.net>
• Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:59:03 -0400

> From: Zemuly@aol.com
> (Gymnocladus dioica) this year and they seem to be doing fine -- so
far.  I 
> don't know if Bambi will eat them as I just removed their chicken
wire "fences" 
> today. 
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Zem, it's not them eating young trees I'd worry about as much as
bucks rubbing their antlers on them and taking off the bark.  I just
saw a young Gingko that had this happen to it; it is dying - no way
it will survive; bark removed from all around it for about a foot in
length.  Bucks seem to like trees with small calipers for their
rubbing - guess that's worse as fall comes and those antlers start
growing, but if I were you, I'd put that chicken wire back on those
guys until they get bigger!

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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