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Northern Westchester Deer-Resistance
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Posted by rayliveshere 6A (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 08 at 14:08
| After studying deer resistant plants all winter long and carefully planting this spring, I can tell you that the deer in northern Westchester will eat just about everything, even when planted within feet of my dog kennel.
Plants touted as rarely damaged or seldom severely damaged, but more or less decimated in my yard in the last few weeks include:
Dicentra (bleeding heart)--completely stripped of foliage
Rudbeckia
Asters
Sambucus "Black Lace"
Various viburnums including "Blue Muffin"
Toad Lily
Cimicifuga "Brunette" and "Hillside Black Beauty"
A beautiful Harry Lauder's Walking Stick
Bottlebrush buckeye (aesculus parviflora)
Sages and several varieties of basil (one highly aromatic)
Boxwood
Various eupatorium and euphorbia
Brunera "Jack Frost" and "Mrs Moon"
Ornamental garlic (allium giganteum) and culinary garlic
Perennial geraniums
Rhubarb (poisonous leaves? maybe for humans...)
Northern Sea Oats
The only things which, so far, have been completely untouched are
Japanese pieris
Various hakonechloa (japanese forest grass)
Liriope (they pulled a few up and spat them out)
Foxglove
Rosemary
Hellebores
Ferns
Ornamental grasses (except for Northern Sea Oats)
...time for a fence.
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Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Northern Westchester Deer-Resistance
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| Hi, I feel you pain. We also live in Deer central (Armonk). I also agree that Japanese Perris work OK and grasses work OK. Barberry is also pretty good. What I have been doing is there is a development near us, and I think ther eis some sort of houseing association taht looks after the gardening. They have a pretty good selection of plants. So I plan to plant what they have. I.E. if ti is still there it must be deer proof .... famous last words .... best, Mike. |
RE: Northern Westchester Deer-Resistance
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| I have been using a product called Plantskydd which seems to work for me in southern putnam co. We live near a lake and we have herds of deer passing through. This is blood product and it's somewhat disgusting but so far it works to keep the deer and rabbits from decimating my plants. I find that the deer will take a taste of even the deer resistant plants and though they don't do much damage to those you can tell they've been tasted! So I resort to the PlantSkydd and I've been happy with it. |
RE: Northern Westchester Deer-Resistance
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| Try Deer Fortess stakes and Liquid Fence spray (used by Mohonk Mountain House.) Deer tend to follow a familiar path. If you change their path to somewhere else, your plants will survive a while. Many, once established are less palatable. Stay vigilant and when the browsing returns, retreat. Some years will be worse than others, but it can be done. |
RE: Northern Westchester Deer-Resistance
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| Have been using the Liquid Fence for about 4 years now with much success. I have hydrangeas. If I spray it regularly and mix it strong they don't seem to bother. In the winter they did do some munching but I'd stopped spraying. We have 2 families of evil bambis that roam our road but so far, knock wood, with regular spraying it's been fine. The stuff stinks at first so be prepared. I bought the LF compression sprayer -- 2 of them broke. I'll get another at Amway in the fall. Theirs are sturdier. |
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