Deer

[elainegrey]

Last night, en route to the grocery store, a buck was standing by the road. We braked and watched him try to figure out how to escape. He had a very attractive rack of antlers.

I went out over lunch to put batteries in the little used camera trap that i've set up on one of the trees at the tip of the driveway island. It's somewhat tear shaped, with the point facing the road. There are a multitude of deer tracks in the raw clay of the island.

All this thinking about what to plant: it's really just gonna be deer food. Well, some random website lists phlox and spiderwort as deer resistant: yay. I'm not sure i could take yet another factor in my analysis!

Comments

[gurdonark]

I like this one, because it uses the phrase "seldom" rather than never:

https://pender.ces.ncsu.edu/files/library/71/Deer%20Resistant%20Plants.pdf

[elainegrey]

It's the only honest way to consider deep herbivory. The site i was looking at noted that fawns will try everything.

And, fie, that site puts phlox in "occasional" rather than "seldom".

[randomdreams]

Rhubarb is pretty deer-resistant.

[elainegrey]

Apparently it's not fond of summers here. (And i don't blame it!)