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Deer Defense,
Here is a topic I had to give some thought to upon moving back to WV from Atlanta. After some thought, here is my 2 cents worth.
Plant plants deer CAN"T eat. Trees are really a good deal. When you look at the size of a mature sugar maple in full bloom, trees are a good long term thing to spend money on. There are a lot of flowering trees. The more you think about flowering trees, the more varieties you will think of.
With a name like waterfall larry I can't resist putting in a plug for waterfalls and ponds. One of my 13 reasons why waterfals and ponds are the #1 best and most valuable type of landscape work is that deer don't eat waterfalls. We shouldn't get locked into only a couple of types of landscape work. o.k. So deer eat plants, put on our thinking caps and come up with other soruces for landscape beauty, benefits and enjoyment.
In addition to planting deet resistant varieties of plants perhaps the thing to do is to install some deer fencing. There are a lot of extremely beautiful varieties of plants that deer love to eat. With deer fencing, you can plant whatever the heck you want to plant .
From a company profit stand point deer can be a blessing. So Mr. Homer Owner you say you have a lot of deer problems and deer eat plants. Let me build you a big waterfall and pond and a big deck and then on the deck we can do some big planters and potted plants and this way you can have plants protected by the deck.
I refuse to let a stupid deer dictate what I a highly competent landscaper and human being can plant and not plant !!!
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