Re: Goat-proof plants?
- Subject: Re: Goat-proof plants?
- From: W* B*
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
Dear in Berkeley, California ruined my dreams of a Meyer Lemon hedge, but
friends who live 3 miles away have beautiful citrus everywhere.
Elly Bade
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Karl Hoover wrote:
> I suspect goats' dining habits are more adventurous than those of deer but
> I can offer my observations about which plants the abundant deer in this
> area have avoided. The deer come out of the hills at night I suspect
> because the surrounding range land has been heavily overgrazed. The will
> try almost anything once unless it very resinous. Therefore they apparently
> have never tried the Araucaria, Juniperus, Cedrus, Pinus, Abies, and
> Sequoiadendron. They never bother the Citrus, Laurus, and Umbellularia
> either. They seem to avoid all sorts of poppies (Papaveraceae) presumably
> since they don't like the morphine. There was once a deer size bite missing
> from a huge Datura bloom, but thereafter the Datura are completely immune.
> Euphorbia lathyrus is avoided but another small spiny Euphorbia was
> sampled. An odd observation is that the deer avoid Heteromeles but devour
> Raphiolepis to the point that it is useless for me. Also, though the deer
> will readily jump a 6' chain link fence, a 5' electric fence effectively
> deters them.
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