Re: Daylilies and deer
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Daylilies and deer
- From: W*
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 12:48:55 -0600
- References: <70.177c9d9.25f7e6fe@aol.com>
Blee811@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/8/00 12:09:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> saxmanbc@bellsouth.net writes:
>
> << I could ask the deer. >>
>
> In my 10 years in deer country, this is the first year that the deer have
> eaten off lots of the just-emerging tips of my daylily foliage. They haven't
> hit them all, but they're working on it. Deer food preferences change from
> year to year. Conifers and rose bushes are not immune.
> Bill Lee
I don't know why it is, but the wildlife seems mighty hungry. Maybe the
mild winters are making it easy for them to survive and propagate. I had
planted some perennial peas for ground cover. I noticed early that they
were doing well and one day POOF They were gone.
So I replanted and put some chicken wire over the seedlings when they
emerged. I even had them planted inside my fenced in yard as opposed to
the outer limits that is not fenced in. The rabbit came into the fenced
yard and pushed the chicken wire aside and dug them up! Now that is
sheer thievery! Uncalled for! Well, I guess I am just a little selfish
about my flowers, especially since these were seeds I had traded for.
The nerve of some animals. I plan to look into plants that they will not
destroy. I had some shrubs planted also that the deer snipped off at the
ground. I presume they will regrow only to be nibbled to the ground
again.
We live near a wooded area and I would think there is plenty in there
for them to feast on. Fortunately I only have two rose bushes and they
are too small to nibble yet. Who knows, though, they seem to have hollow
legs when it comes to appetites.
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