The Story of Doe #45

The tale of one determined deer and the gardener trying to remain cordial while still protecting her plants

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Today we ’ve got a short write up that is a tale as quondam as clip , or as sure-enough as gardeners have been planting flowers to be savor rather than crunch on by funny neighbors . Kathryn ‘ Kit ’ Jensen has shared her garden a pair of fourth dimension in the past ( check out out those submissions here : Bulbs in Northeastern OhioandFinding Solace in Kit ’s Garden ) , and today she ’s partake a very relatable test - in with a cute but destructive garden client .

I hold out in an older suburb of the metro Cleveland arena — South Euclid . We are bless with metropolis parks , a incision of the Metroparks , and creeks . The downside is the cervid . The city , like others , is experimenting with cervid sterilisation .

Below is doe # 45 , named after her tag . Now , three sides of my backyard are fenced but now and again cervid will wind up the driveway .

This became the favorite blot for # 45 , under the Cercis canadensis trees , next to Solomon ’s Seal , and lily-white anemone , tuck behind a curve of perennial chrysanthemum , zinnias , alyssum , a tree hydrangea , verbena bonariensis , purple lovegrass , and “ pearl ” , a yarrow . Idyllic ! There she was on a September morning . After thought , deer # 45 remaining .

But … here is # 45 back again on the 2nd morning , and after spraying . The circle in the screen background is a clothesline I used to discourage deer from munching on the oakleaf hydrangea along the fence over wintertime . That works .

The third picture is my answer — garden chairs and flower stakes stick up in the layer between the chairs .

So far , so good . Have others found inventive way to prevent cervid from moving in on gardens ?

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