https://awaytogarden.com/dealing-with-deer-in-the-garden-with-brad-roeller/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://awaytogarden.com/dealing-with-deer-in-the-garden-with-brad-roeller/comment-page-1/#comment-1279985 Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:51:33 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51197#comment-1279985 When I moved to Columbia county in NY acquiring 3+ acres of wooded land, I was ecstatic about gardening possibilities. I envisioned blooming trees and shrubs surrounded by moss and spring ephemerals with fragrance wafting on the air.
The plants I put in didn’t seem to do well and it took me some time to discover that they were being eaten by deer. In my ignorance I thought (or just assumed without thinking) that native plants, having evolved with deer, would be resistant to the depredations. But bloodroots, trillium, primroses, azaleas, rhodies, clethra, mock orange, you name it, just kept being eaten.
From trying to fence in individual plants I’ve progressed to enclosing about 1/3 of my property by a high mesh. I feel that my actions are protecting plants that would otherwise die due to deer overbrowsing. Someone has to protect them!

]]> https://awaytogarden.com/dealing-with-deer-in-the-garden-with-brad-roeller/comment-page-1/#comment-1279514 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:41:57 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51197#comment-1279514 IRISH SPRING SOAP, HUNG WHERE THE DEER EAT IS A GREAT DETERENT.

]]> https://awaytogarden.com/dealing-with-deer-in-the-garden-with-brad-roeller/comment-page-1/#comment-1278164 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:40:18 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51197#comment-1278164 Great show, I signed up for Brad’s talk. You get 4 good information sheets

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