photograph by Jessica WalliserThe deer around our house have become a real problem for us , but they have no problem at all nibble aside at our shrubs and plants .
For the past several years we have had a bit of a deer job in our front yard and garden . When we travel into our house , I knew there was the electric potential for deer government issue , and they seem to be receive forged as metre goes on . I think this twelvemonth they ’re going to be worse then ever because the wooded circumstances across the street has now been turned into a large sign of the zodiac and lawn . It seems that when humans take away some of their open blank , the deer tend to exact their revenge by ingest something cherish out of the garden . Ugh .
I bring up in apast postabout how the deer were nibbling all sorts of plant material in our front garden . Not eating it to the nub , thank goodness , but taking a decent snack out of everything — even the stuff they are n’t “ supposed ” to care . We ended up netting in our boxwood ( which were plant there specifically because they arenotdeer favorites ) , our dogwood tree diagram and a few other thing . This year , the deer ate all the berries off my possum haw shrubs the night before I was going to cut them and use them in our Christmas centrepiece . They were well - mannered , though , because they only ate the berries and not the branchlet . How overnice of them .
The really bad news for us is that when I went out yesterday morning to let thechickensout of the henhouse , I found two separate wrinkle of cervid path run across the backyard ; one big and one little . A Department of Energy and her fawn perhaps ?
To get there , they had to jump our triple layer , split rail and mountain range - link fencing — something they ’ve only done once to my cognition in the past four or five age . I hope they did it because they got spooked and do n’t make a habit out of it .
I reconnoitre around my plants and fruit tree to see if they had dejeuner while they were here . Some yew tips were eaten , but that ’s all I find . I ’m really , really hop they do n’t get along back and discoverour young fruit trees . Mostly because we have waited so long for them to get as big as they are , and I ’m not a very patient person . I imagine maybe I ’ll go out and spray them with a deer repellant just to be certain .
Every time I think about our cervid trouble , though , I am reminded of a gardening admirer who once told me about her super deer . One nighttime she and her husband were woken by a clunk and rattling sound . They come down stairs to discover a vaulting horse banging it ’s nose against the glass of their sunlight porch in a vain attempt to eat the houseplant inside . The same buck was feel a few week later eating the pine miscellany Christmas decoration from around their front door . He had walked up several step and justly onto their front porch . After she chase him off , she bet at the coronal and see that the buck had also consume the light cords and bulbs thread through the garland . remember that always makes my cervid problem seem barely a problem at all .
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