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Apple Dumpling DesignsThis morning there was a very sweet female deer in my backyard...not uncommon. We see them all the time. They are always very polite and mainly eat the apples that are now starting to fall on the ground....UNTIL TODAY!!
She stripped the leaves off my two little apple trees that I started from SEED...cleaned them down to the main stock...and she stripped my roses. NOW I'M JUST PISSED OFF!!!
I haven't done my usual overboard with flowers this year because I just haven't felt well and it's alot of work preparing the flowerbed, planting all the flowers, deadheading them so they will bloom all summer, etc., etc. I'm so mad that the two things I've sort of babied the damn dear decided to have for breakfast. AUGH
Off to pout...
Shantell
Lemmon BearsThey do the same thing to me.....I gave up on having roses. 
Now that we have dogs, I may try again. I've heard that bloodmeal will keep them away.
Joan
Newcastle, OntarioOh Shantell,
Those pesky deer! I do understand though. Our back property used to be an apple orchard and there are still huge trees at the very back and along the bike path. They could walk down there in the wee hours of the morning and help themselves, right?
Well, they prefer my hanging baskets of flowers on my deck! I've stopped putting up the hanging flowers our back because of them, but they have never gone after my roses on the ground. I'm not sure about the dogs, as we have a lot of them along our street, but they are behind fences or in pens. Are the deer smart enough to figure that out - I think so! I'm sending big hugs!
hugs, :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Brenda
Oh Shantell!! 
I would be just crushed!! That's one of my biggest fears.....that the deer will eat my garden right before the wedding. The back garden is fenced but I think if the deer are hungry enough they will just jump right over it and have a smorgasbord of tasty treats.
The wild bunnies have already found a particular shrub in my garden to be very yummy. I have three of these particular shrubs. Every time they get ready to flower, the bunnies eat them down to the ground. I'll never get to see what the flowers on those bushes look like. (sigh)
In central Oregon my mom is battling the deer as well. She's almost given up on gardening because of the deer. Trying to help her, I found a web site from OSU for deer resistant plants. Can't remember the site but I did print out the list. If you'd like a copy just let me know and I'll zip it off in the mail. Or, if you'd rather google it......I think I just typed in "deer resistant Oregon". The list contains trees, shrubs, vines, perennials and bulbs.
Warmest deer resistant bear hugs, :hug:
Aleta
Back Road BearsCan't feed the birds in the summer because of bear.
Can't have plants because of deer. (Our doe ate all of my hosta..... I had just gotten it at the garden center and hadn't even put it in the ground yet! Thankfully she didn't kill it, it just looks out of place in my garden because it's just got a few tiny new leaves coming up!)
Can't go out the door anyway because the deer flies and misquitoes are just waiting to suck me dry!
Now there is the issue of heat! Alll my blinds are closed, I don't go out the door except to take the dogs out and so don't even pay attention to my garden or the birds now anyway!
GRRRR!!!
Is it winter in the US yet?
Shantell, perhaps if you left some brownies out for her she'd leave your trees alone??? 
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They will grow back..... next year. 
Sorry Shantell I DO understand how you feel...My "flower problems" are ...Bella and Bianca!! My two dogs..I know, I know..You teach them I have never had this problem ( that lasted!! ) with my dogs and we always have had, at least , a couple at a time. These two, it does not matter what we do ..they still do ruin our plants!! We think they are "cure" and start planting again and, one day, we go out and...they ARE GONE!!! I think we are giving up 
Well ladies, I only have couple of names for the Anime Golly swap. Let me tell you, how it is going to be done ( if we all agree and want to do it) I will write the names of the people that wants to participate, each on a piece of paper and folded ( more than once!! 
) put them in a hat ( or box!! ) and draw a couple of names at a time, write the names down on a list, those two will swap between themselves. I will keep on going till we have our pairs. If we have left over person, I am sure that somebody ( me included ) will have a extra Golly to swap 
Does everybody agree? Do we want to do it or not? Please let me know, we are already on August ( WOW! ..this year is going by way too fast for me!! ) and remember the Challenge is till the end of this month.
Let me know Ok?
Bear hugs and Golly smiles.
Gladys. 
Posts: 8,574Awww Shantell, 
Honey I do feel your pain. 
I came to a truce with our bambi's.
My roses are inside the fenced vegatable garden, pool and hot tub area. But I have climbing roses started on the fences. what grows to the outside the deer can have with my blessings, because what grows inside is mine and will eventually cover the ugly fence.
I have yet to meet a deer who liked lavender, or vinca major or Wisteria.- so around the house I am planting lavender....and I keep adding to it each year. Then on the shady side I am killing the grass. I will putting in vinca major there, its a good ground cover, wont grow too high, doesn't need mowing ( the hubby hates mowing) and has pretty periwinkle flowers in the spring. It is somewhat drought tolerant, so once well started will only need watering during the worst part of the summer. For us that is only 100-105. Not usually hotter.
Then since the sunny part of the front lawn gets the most sun of any place on the property, and since my hubster loves to make his own hot sauce and since I know how much he hates to mow, I said go ahead and fence the rest in We'll build some more boxes and expand the garden- so that we can grow peppers. I'd start them early, it should work.
Well, I get to have all the vegys and flowers and herbs, the deer get to wander through and nibble whatever grows through the fense and hubby doesn't have to mow.
When I lived in the Sierra's I grew special roses for the deer, they grew into humongous flowing bushes, and they grew on their own roots. They covered up an ugly berm and were beautiful even with the nibbeling they got every day from the deer. And because there was always something good for them there they never jumped up to the deck to get the heirloom roses or tomatoes. I try to strike a balance. It keeps me from tears and mourning the loss of a special rose.
I really do understand.
Which is why i decided who cares what others think about where i put fences. If i want a good garden and the only sun is here then thats where the garden grows.
I surely hope I die here...and never have to contemplate removing the fences to try and fix it up with "curb appeal".....heck, can't see the curb anyway!
Dry your tears, love. There are strategies for having what you want and keeping the wild life happy too.....
Posts: 8,574PS The deer also do not eat daffys or iris....so you can have those safely outside a fenced area too-I did have them try to eat other early plants like snowdrops.
Just ideas.
Poor love, I know how sad it is to loose a beautiful rose.
LutonWhen my dog was a pup she used to like to sit on the lawn and eat the dandelions. Good for my lawn but not so good for her so I put a stop to that !!!
Squirrels as well always used to steal all the bird food !!!!
Little rascals
Hugs
Claire
Apple Dumpling DesignsOh the perils of living with nature. This is my third summer in this house and the FIRST time the deer have messed with any of my flowers. Before my divorce I had deer problems every once in awhile....they liked to eat the buds off my clematis which fronted the entire length of the deck in the back yard...gorgeous in the summer...wish I had photo to share.
Aleta...Funny you should mention the OSU website...I have it bookmarked under gardening. My mom is an avid gardener...she literally lives in her garden most of the year and is always telling me about some new speciman she has and will describe it. I've been very lucky to have found alot of them on that site so I can SEE what she talking about. I swear she can and does grown EVERYTHING. She lives on the Oregon coast and grows magnificent cacti from Arizona & New Mexico that people have brought back for her. She even has some weird rare cactus type plant that came from Africa many years ago. A patient of hers gave it to her probably 30 years ago. It blooms only at night, beautiful flower that smells absolutely horrid. She has several oddity plants like that.
I love flowers and all the little critters so as Dilu said...you just have to find a balance. But in the meantime...little Missy Deer in on my sh..t list for today.
Hugs,
Shantell
Jellybelly BearsYes it is strange isn't it Susan! I've always thought how delightful it would be to have all those sweet animals around that we don't see here in oz...but never throught of the damage they do. we don't really have much wildlife here where i live,,,besides rabbits, foxes and mice and rats ughhh!!! Susan you're lucky to have kangaroos and possums. I know one lady who has platypusus in her pond! now that would be cool!
Rufnut Teddy'sSorry to hear about the deers Shantell. :hug:
Kangaroos are pests here too, they are lovely to look at, but they have broken a number of our mature pine trees, pooped everywhere and damaged fences, we can definitely relate.
