CULT: Deer Damage
- Subject: CULT: Deer Damage
- From: L*
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 01 15:17:21 +0100
>Actually this is in response to the deer-eating of iris sprouts.
>That's really interesting. The deer in NJ carefully step over the
>iris to get to the daylilly sprouts right next to them. Such
>discriminating palates!.
Our deer don't *usually* eat the irises, either. This winter has been so
extraordinarily severe and relentless up here, however, that deer have
been starving in large numbers. It is only under these circumstances that
deer will start eating virtually anything that shows any green, including
iris leaves. That's why I'm so eager to see their natural browse (shrubs
and saplings) leaf out. I'm hoping those discriminating palates will
kick back in once there's a greater variety of food available to them.
I'm afraid I'll get no bloom at all if my irises never even have the
opportunity to grow leaf fans to feed their rhizs.
Laurie
zone 3b, northern MN
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