[Magdalen] Spring has Sprung.

[Marion Thompson]

What cruel conditions must coyotes in captivity endure to produce this 
repellant!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/8/2015 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> This year instead they have been blasted into flower by the 85 F
>> temperatures, and it's all over in a blink.
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>> 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.
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>> David Strang - with air conditioners on.
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