Garden news: those pesky deer again

[callmemadam]

First thing this morning as I drew the curtains, I startled a young deer in the garden. He then leapt nimbly over an eight foot hedge. This is what he ate for breakfast: all the heads off the mallows; the stems of a hardy geranium which I’d already cut back; the red flower heads off Pelargonium ‘Vancouver Centennial’. Deer are very dainty nibblers, cropping all the stems to a neat uniform height. I don’t mind about the mallows because I’m trying (what a battle) to get rid of them anyway. But pelargoniums? I really can’t be bothered carrying them all into the greenhouse every evening just in case.

I should be thankful that this year my sedum and phlox plants have been left alone and not chomped to ground level. I shall never know whether or not the scary tin butterflies I planted really have kept the marauders at bay.

Comments

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

I was about to be amazed at that butterfly until you said it was tin!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! Perhaps it amazes the deer!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

> This is what he ate for breakfast:

Oh dear, that did make me laugh. He sounds like the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

He's certainly hungry. What's wrong with grass, for goodness sake?

[(Anonymous)]

What's wrong with grass, for goodness sake?

Would you eat plain white bread if there was olive & rosemary available?

Wee sister

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I don't garden to provide gourmet delights for deer :-)

[gghost.livejournal.com]

I seem to be running a deer restaurant as well. About the only things that they consistently avoid are the geraniums and the herbs.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ho, my geraniums must be special :-)

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Well at least someone had a good breakfast! How nice to see deer in your garden, though. Shame they eat all the plants.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I prefer to see them at a distance, in the meadow!