Re: The joy of garden certainty

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Well I can remember hearing for as long as I've been gardening that  deer 
will eat rhododendron foliage.  But in 30 years I've never, ever seen  it.  Still 
we spray the foliage and I know people who spray, fence and do  all kinds of 
incantations to protect their rhodies from the deer.  Still, I  hadn't seen a 
nibble.  Well, they nibbled this winter.  They followed  the path through the 
formal garden and munched the repellant treated foliage  along the way....the 
whole way.  Talk about desperation.  Can you  imagine being so hungry that 
you'd eat latex coated, thiram dippped, leather  textured foliage?  I'd take the 
daffodil for sure.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a registered  trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press, The Press  and the Easthampton Press

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