Re: CULT: Deer Damage
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Deer Damage
- From: J* C*
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:17:57 -0500
Laurie,
They will bloom after the deer eat them. They one on me and they bloomed any
how.
Jim Clark in Mo.
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie <laurief@paulbunyan.net>
To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: Deer Damage
>>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!.
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>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.
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>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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