Lutonian
Chumono
I'm lucky the only deer I have seen in my garden is a Muntjac and the cant reach my benches their too small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntjac would bells on a fishing line as a trip wire work?
Keep deer from snacking on my trees
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ABCarve
Masterpiece
How about motion detector to set off strobe lights and recorded shotgun.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
That would work. They hate loud noises. But I am afraid at my house we wouldn't get much sleep. They are a nuisance but I love my deer. We have 7 of them that I see almost every day.
ABCarve
Masterpiece
our deer used to be pretty wild and timid, however they have become brazen over this mild winter. Summer they stay away but they chewed away a lot of my favorite shrubs that are close to the house. Do you spray in winter?
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
You're supposed to put on a ghillie suit, get a Rambo knife, hide in the shrubbery, wait quietly for Bambi....commit to it when the opportunity presents itself.
Good clean fun.
Good clean fun.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
Not regularly and my yew shows it. They left it alone for 20 years and then said "F" the rules. Past few years the have practically destroyed it.
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
I was surprised to learn that rabbits don't mind a little taxine in their diet....but deer too! What the hell?
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
I know, I know. There is an old adage that no plant is deer proof, but that some are more resistant. Twenty years or more they left it alone and now the have about destroyed it in the past 3 years.
Javaman4373
Shohin
I had deer defoliate one of my landscape yews during the winter. I have since successfully protected the other one by surrounding it by rolls of sheep fence that we use as tomato cages in the garden in the summer. They are about 3-4 ft in diameter x 4 ft high and they are laid on the ground horizontally. They are just wide enough that the deer can reach over them and they will not jump them to get at the shrub. I block my bench with bonsai plants on it with the same cages.
A. Gorilla
Omono
Stake a chimp or baboon out there.
Shogun610
Masterpiece
This kinda reminds of my dog who rolled around in deer poop? Yesterday, quite fun !
Lutonian
Chumono
Dear can eat yew & rhododendron no issues https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profi...ble of eating,apples and mountain ash berries.
WHY IS IT DEADLY?
Japanese yew, a tree-like shrub that can grow 20 feet if protected from pruning shears, contains taxine A and B—deadly to humans, wildlife, horses, cattle, sheep, goats and dogs—even in small quantities. Whitetail deer, though, can consume it and walk away seemingly unscathed. Mule deer aren’t so lucky.There’s really no warning for elk and other wild game. One minute they are munching on yew, then they wheeze a few times and die of poison-induced cardiac arrhythmia. Humans take a bit more time to succumb to it, taking around 30 minutes before yew poison causes heart failure. Two notoriously cunning women in 15th century Europe—Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de Medici—used it to dispose of unwanted husbands and political opponents in part because it’s symptoms can be mistaken a heart attack. Ill effects can also include tremors, fever, difficulty breathing, dilated pupils and vomiting.
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
I've seen deer and rabbits eat yew.
I think it depends on species like white tail deer get away with it and mule deer do not. I think the deadly yew is the Japanese Yew also
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