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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    chicky says:

    ... will need to find a deer resistant substitute for my winter structure - anyone any thoughts.  ...

    See original post

     What about Ilex crenata ... would they nibble the new shoots of that? 

    http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/ilex-crenata-dark-green-icoprins11-pbr/classid.2000020898/ 

    Have a peaceful evening Wonky ... love to Lovely Hub  ... say hello to my step-grandson from his Spare Gran image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Ilex crenata - this site says they don't eat it http://www.bada-uk.org/deer-repellent-plants 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541

    They both send their love Dove x

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Or what about Sarcococca confusa ... it's on the deer resistant list here   http://www.carolynsingergardens.com/deer.html 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Obelixx - can I have some of your oomph please?

    I'm nearly as bad as Cosmos.

    Chicky - if my memory is correct, the Beechgrove Garden are doing trials of plants to replace box.

    SW Scotland
  • DachaloverDachalover Posts: 776

    Hi all...so a delicate question as my BH has a different view....our friends have decided to buy this whippet .......looks like a beautiful pet.....can you tell us what you think?

    limage 

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    The face says "please take me".......sorry don't know anything about whippets.

    SW Scotland
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291

    Lovely whippet! Like greyhounds too. Would love  to adopt either breed but cannot now we have kittens! 

    I hear they make excellent companion pets.

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Whippets are really just small grey hounds.  They make lovely family pets but do need to be able to run about a bit and/or have a good walk each day.

    Chicky - in Belgium I planted a 19m hedge of ilex aquifolium along part of the boundary between us and the cows in the pasture next door thinking it would be nibble proof.   They very carefully leaned over the barbed wire fence and ate all the soft new growth every spring so I ended up with a short, fat hedge.  Ended up having to put up a barrier of that wire mesh builders use for reinforcing concrete.      Worked a treat and I got a shoulder height fat hedge.

    Joyce - all out of oomph now but happy to share tomorrow.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Thanks Obelixx.

    SW Scotland
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