[Magdalen] Spring has Sprung.

[Jay Weigel]

We have some kind of oil-based deer/dog/cat repellent that we spray on. It
really STINKS but it's effective.....the deer have not bothered my heuchera
since I sprayed it, and they did kind of like the occasional heuchera
salad. S/O also put some sort of systemic deer repellent down in a couple
of places, but he suspects it may have killed a shrub we bought which we
were assured was immune to black walnuts.

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 6:42 PM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> If there is a deer repellent that (a) actually repels deer and (b) does
> not harm plants, at least so far as Central Texas deer and plants are
> concerned I don't know what it is.  Some people here think coyote urine is
> a good deer repellent (and, yes, believe it or not you can purchase dried
> coyote urine), and it may work.  We are having a wet spring and rain washes
> away the reconstituted urine so this would not be the year to try it.  In
> recent arid years the deer would, for want of preferred food, eat any plant
> that wasn't hairy or spiny or thorny or outright poisonous.
> ---- Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > Predictably, the USA Northeast seems to be having a spring
> > development very much like I was used to in the USA Upper Midwest.
> >
> > IOW, there really isn't a spring at all, but rather a changeover from
> > late winter cold directly into summer with the heat and humidity
> > characteristic of the latter season.
> >
> > This is too bad, because my favorite season here in the Pennsylvania
> > Poconos has been spring, characterized by gradual warming through
> > a couple of months following the winter chill.  This encourages a
> wonderful
> > parade of flowering plants from daffodils and tulips through the  Asian
> > and native magnolias, Flowering Dogwood, early rhododendrons and
> > azaleas, and finally the broadleaf rhododenrons, various lilacs and
> > spireas.  I shouldn't forget the flowering cherries and crabs.
> >
> > This year instead they have been blasted into flower by the 85 F
> > temperatures, and it's all over in a blink.
> >
> > This week to boot, my single 24' Japanese Cryptomeria has gone
> > brown over 50% of its foliage.  I suspect my garden guy and his
> > heavy spraying with deer repellant.
> >
> > Sometimes you just can't win.
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang - with air conditioners on.
> >
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