Last year my wife and I remade our rose garden from scratch as our Golden Wedding present to each other. It was beautiful but now some of the bushes are nearly dead. It is mostly enclosed so we have put gates on the entrances to keep out the deer but the bushes are still being eaten by something, from the top down, mainly leaves but some stalks too.One website suggested egg spray but we chose all our roses for fragrance and the smell of rotting eggs would keep us away, not only the deer. We should be so grateful for any help.
Deer cannot redeem themselves until they've learnt to eat ground elder, horsetail AND bindweed in sufficient quantities such that they all three become threatened species!
The fencing is 7 feet at its lowest with arches at intervals for easy access but we have temporarily blocked off the entrances. It seems to have made no difference. Our deer are roe deer. They visit most days, mainly in the evening but not exclusively. Any help would be much appreciated as we have poured effort, love and money into this project and the damage is most upsetting.
No idea if it works but I've just sprayed "Grazers" on my vegetable garden and greenhouse plants. It claims to be organic and to deter deer, rabbits and mice from eating the plants. My problem is voles rather then deer and it's too early to tell whether it is working but nothing has been eaten which was sprayed. (I do have traps in the greenhouse as well though).
Thank you for that. I'll try to get some and give it a try. We are feeling pretty despondent about the roses although we love seeing the deer, such graceful creatures.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Last year my wife and I remade our rose garden from scratch as our Golden Wedding present to each other. It was beautiful but now some of the bushes are nearly dead. It is mostly enclosed so we have put gates on the entrances to keep out the deer but the bushes are still being eaten by something, from the top down, mainly leaves but some stalks too.One website suggested egg spray but we chose all our roses for fragrance and the smell of rotting eggs would keep us away, not only the deer. We should be so grateful for any help.
Deer cannot redeem themselves until they've learnt to eat ground elder, horsetail AND bindweed in sufficient quantities such that they all three become threatened species!
How tall is your fencing? Have you seen how high deer can leap?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The fencing is 7 feet at its lowest with arches at intervals for easy access but we have temporarily blocked off the entrances. It seems to have made no difference. Our deer are roe deer. They visit most days, mainly in the evening but not exclusively. Any help would be much appreciated as we have poured effort, love and money into this project and the damage is most upsetting.
No idea if it works but I've just sprayed "Grazers" on my vegetable garden and greenhouse plants. It claims to be organic and to deter deer, rabbits and mice from eating the plants. My problem is voles rather then deer and it's too early to tell whether it is working but nothing has been eaten which was sprayed. (I do have traps in the greenhouse as well though).
Thank you for that. I'll try to get some and give it a try. We are feeling pretty despondent about the roses although we love seeing the deer, such graceful creatures.