Re: Impatiens Downy Mildew

**A*@aol.com**

Lois - How do you manage to grow mountain laurel, azalea, and  rhododendron 
with deer around?  Do you spray?  Or are you blessed with  an absence of 
these munching critters?

I have much of the rest of your list, but here at our place in Virginia the 
 blooms (in the bud stage) are caviar to our deer, and it's not worth the  
effort (unless I fence the entire 10 acres) to grow them and other deer  
favorites.  It's gotten so bad that I've  moved many wildflowers from  our 
stream valley into beds at the edge of our porch just to keep their genetic  
lines going.  This close, at least, they have a prayer of a chance. The  
woodland floor in spring is now almost stripped of what once was  there. This 
includes tree seedlings as well.  In the future, as the  woods age, there will 
be no saplings to replace declining and dead trees -- not  a good thing!

Lina Burton

In a message dated 2/2/2013 7:27:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
loisdan@juno.com writes:

Mountain  laurel,
azalea, and rhododendron 
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