I'm envious of all the beautiful flowers you both are talking about. I can't have a single blossom going for more that 20 minutes without some "deer" eating all my plants !!!!! Oh well. I no longer plant flowers- about 2 weeks ago I counted (11) deers in my backyard and then they decided to walk to the front of my house and down my driveway !!!!
Well thats pretty special in its self! When we went camping we'd always go out at dusk to spot the deer. They are majestic animals. Once on a hike we came across 3 laying peacefully under a tree. They didn't budge. Just let us walk through their world. Its a beautiful memory.
Maybe if you plant in pots close to your living space and talk to the garden center expert they may have some suggestions. You might be able to enjoy a little of both.
Some flowers and deer, then I would envy you!
I'm envious of all the beautiful flowers you both are talking about. I can't have a single blossom going for more that 20 minutes without some "deer" eating all my plants !!!!! Oh well. I no longer plant flowers- about 2 weeks ago I counted (11) deers in my backyard and then they decided to walk to the front of my house and down my driveway !!!!
Well thats pretty special in its self! When we went camping we'd always go out at dusk to spot the deer. They are majestic animals. Once on a hike we came across 3 laying peacefully under a tree. They didn't budge. Just let us walk through their world. Its a beautiful memory.
Maybe if you plant in pots close to your living space and talk to the garden center expert they may have some suggestions. You might be able to enjoy a little of both.
Some flowers and deer, then I would envy you!
Well, Thank you for the wonderful suggestions. This has been going on for so long - I've pretty much given up on flowers.
I have to say that during the winter months - the deers are truly wonderful to watch. Take care.
I'm envious of all the beautiful flowers you both are talking about. I can't have a single blossom going for more that 20 minutes without some "deer" eating all my plants !!!!! Oh well. I no longer plant flowers- about 2 weeks ago I counted (11) deers in my backyard and then they decided to walk to the front of my house and down my driveway !!!!
ELEVEN deer in your backyard??!! :shock:
Wow. Is your yard enormous?
I'm envious of all the beautiful flowers you both are talking about. I can't have a single blossom going for more that 20 minutes without some "deer" eating all my plants !!!!! Oh well. I no longer plant flowers- about 2 weeks ago I counted (11) deers in my backyard and then they decided to walk to the front of my house and down my driveway !!!!
ELEVEN deer in your backyard??!! :shock:
Wow. Is your yard enormous?
No - not at all, I actually live in a "developement" and most of our yards are less then a 1/2 acre. But this used to be a huge wooded area where deer lived before "our houses" did. How sad. So the deers were here before "us" and of course still want to hang around.
The nice part of this area - lots and lots of trees !!! So the deers, owls, skunks etc. feel right at home
I'm envious of all the beautiful flowers you both are talking about. I can't have a single blossom going for more that 20 minutes without some "deer" eating all my plants !!!!! Oh well. I no longer plant flowers- about 2 weeks ago I counted (11) deers in my backyard and then they decided to walk to the front of my house and down my driveway !!!!
Well thats pretty special in its self! When we went camping we'd always go out at dusk to spot the deer. They are majestic animals. Once on a hike we came across 3 laying peacefully under a tree. They didn't budge. Just let us walk through their world. Its a beautiful memory.
Maybe if you plant in pots close to your living space and talk to the garden center expert they may have some suggestions. You might be able to enjoy a little of both.
Some flowers and deer, then I would envy you!
Well, Thank you for the wonderful suggestions. This has been going on for so long - I've pretty much given up on flowers.
I have to say that during the winter months - the deers are truly wonderful to watch. Take care.
if you interested i have a recipe for homemade deer repellant...no chemicals, all natural stuff you'd likely have around the kitchen and it won't hurt the deer they just don't like the taste of it...it really does work.
i used it at my old place because the deer would devour my tomatoes, roses, tulips, clematis, petunias, pansies. one even walked right up onto my front porch and ate a huge basket of pansies, not two feet from the door. the only things they wouldn't eat was the lavender, sage, herbs, gerainums, and a few others, and my lilacs (oh how i miss my lilac bushes :( )
two years ago i shooed away this doe just as she was about chomp into my just planted tomato plants (she had eaten my neighbors entire huge garden so i though maybe that was why she was so FAT) so i mixed up some repellant and sprayed on my plants...i didn't feel too bad cause there's lots of other vegetation around....
well two days later i'm looking out my bedroom window (on the phone with someone...hmm i was right about what they were saying then was bs also) so and i see her laying in the grass right across the street and she got a lil newborn fawn that's all hopping around her. then i look out again and she's standing leaning down eating something in the grass...she then backs up and i see something slowly rising up and it's the lil wet twin fawn standing up all wobbly legged for the very first time...definitely one of the most incredibly awesome things i've ever witnessed
@ Prism- That is so amazing! Very cool that you were able to witness that! Its stories like this that make me greatful that I live where I do and not in some big, inner city that doesn't have a blade of grass within a mile. We take so much for granted. Such a great story!
I must admit, I live in the city, but I also live near a three square acre lot of protected nature that I can enjoy when EVER I need it ( which is often), plus my wolf-dog used to love going there with me so I go there alot lately to pay him homage... And the natural world ( you know sans other humans) is an absolute necessity. I got to have a bobcat moment like that ( the deer ) in Yosemite, it's unlike any other feeling in the world to get to see them in their own habitat, watching you go by as they go along their way watched by you..
I'm sure interested in the "homemade" natural deer repellant. Send it to me, plus any directions would be nice. Thank you,
I already spray my lawn with "cheap" beer during the summer months. I did read that beer is good to naturally de-thatch your lawn. Since I'm not a beer drinker - I figure my lawn would like it.
I must admit, I live in the city, but I also live near a three square acre lot of protected nature that I can enjoy when EVER I need it ( which is often), plus my wolf-dog used to love going there with me so I go there alot lately to pay him homage... And the natural world ( you know sans other humans) is an absolute necessity. I got to have a bobcat moment like that ( the deer ) in Yosemite, it's unlike any other feeling in the world to get to see them in their own habitat, watching you go by as they go along their way watched by you..
"An hour in the garden/woods puts life's problems in perspective"
Nature has helped me handle life and its troubles. It brings a peace that nothing can match except maybe being in the arms of a loved one.
"An hour in the garden/woods puts life's problems in perspective"
Nature has helped me handle life and its troubles. It brings a peace that nothing can match except maybe being in the arms of a loved one.
that is why i have always been a country boy vs' a city slicker.
i can't wait until i am better.
i am going to tear up some trails.
i need grass, trees, rain, and wildlife.
ferns, a thick labyrinth of multiple shades of green.
perfect for writing under a tree, relaxing smoking a few hits.
the birds, each one singing the ("hey dude, look at me i'm so beautiful and fun as i skip around branch to branch") song of sky.
"An hour in the garden/woods puts life's problems in perspective"
Nature has helped me handle life and its troubles. It brings a peace that nothing can match except maybe being in the arms of a loved one.
"An hour in the garden/woods puts life's problems in perspective"
Nature has helped me handle life and its troubles. It brings a peace that nothing can match except maybe being in the arms of a loved one.
that is why i have always been a country boy vs' a city slicker.
i can't wait until i am better.
i am going to tear up some trails.
i need grass, trees, rain, and wildlife.
ferns, a thick labyrinth of multiple shades of green.
perfect for writing under a tree, relaxing smoking a few hits.
the birds, each one singing the ("hey dude, look at me i'm so beautiful and fun as i skip around branch to branch") song of sky.
you describe what I love very well
Our vacationing has changed the last years since PJ travels, we go to cities. I do miss the vacations where I can live in the woods, claim a park as home for a few days.
Those shades of green you describe, the ferns and moss in the deep woods, the smells and silence except for leaves in the breeze and the occasional bird alerting another, takes you to a different place mind and soul.
I can and do attempt to have that here in my yard. I have my backyard friends and garden. But there really is no replacement for being deep in the woods.
I'm sure interested in the "homemade" natural deer repellant. Send it to me, plus any directions would be nice. Thank you,
I already spray my lawn with "cheap" beer during the summer months. I did read that beer is good to naturally de-thatch your lawn. Since I'm not a beer drinker - I figure my lawn would like it.
the 'recipe' and directions are sent
i'm not a beer drinker either...but i'm sure your lawn liked it
this has nothing to do with keeping deer from eating flowers/plants...
but across the street alongside the blackberries there was an old apple tree... in the fall the apples would fall to the ground and ferment...the deer loved to come along and eat them...my neighbors and i would giggle cause it did appear that a deer would "get buzzed" and stagger after eating a few...
"Once oh what a time I could control myself
Once oh what a time I could lose myself
Once oh what a time I could love myself
Once oh what a time I could love you"
And, to add to my skinned body and sunburn, I also dropped a curling iron on my chest today.... Fml, please, seriously. Lol
ouch! sorry, I hate that when I do that, and I have
or when I burn my forehead with the curling iron before we are going somewhere and it looks like a big long red welt that no one can keep their eyes off of when I'm speaking to them.
Hope your sunburn gets better soon. I haven't had a chance to get mine yet this year
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Maybe if you plant in pots close to your living space and talk to the garden center expert they may have some suggestions. You might be able to enjoy a little of both.
Some flowers and deer, then I would envy you!
Well, Thank you for the wonderful suggestions. This has been going on for so long - I've pretty much given up on flowers.
I have to say that during the winter months - the deers are truly wonderful to watch. Take care.
ELEVEN deer in your backyard??!! :shock:
Wow. Is your yard enormous?
No - not at all, I actually live in a "developement" and most of our yards are less then a 1/2 acre. But this used to be a huge wooded area where deer lived before "our houses" did. How sad. So the deers were here before "us" and of course still want to hang around.
The nice part of this area - lots and lots of trees !!! So the deers, owls, skunks etc. feel right at home
It's still amazing to me.
It sounds nice though. "Lots of trees" give a place a good feeling.
if you interested i have a recipe for homemade deer repellant...no chemicals, all natural stuff you'd likely have around the kitchen and it won't hurt the deer they just don't like the taste of it...it really does work.
i used it at my old place because the deer would devour my tomatoes, roses, tulips, clematis, petunias, pansies. one even walked right up onto my front porch and ate a huge basket of pansies, not two feet from the door. the only things they wouldn't eat was the lavender, sage, herbs, gerainums, and a few others, and my lilacs (oh how i miss my lilac bushes :( )
two years ago i shooed away this doe just as she was about chomp into my just planted tomato plants (she had eaten my neighbors entire huge garden so i though maybe that was why she was so FAT) so i mixed up some repellant and sprayed on my plants...i didn't feel too bad cause there's lots of other vegetation around....
well two days later i'm looking out my bedroom window (on the phone with someone...hmm i was right about what they were saying then was bs also) so and i see her laying in the grass right across the street and she got a lil newborn fawn that's all hopping around her. then i look out again and she's standing leaning down eating something in the grass...she then backs up and i see something slowly rising up and it's the lil wet twin fawn standing up all wobbly legged for the very first time...definitely one of the most incredibly awesome things i've ever witnessed
angels share laughter
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Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
I already spray my lawn with "cheap" beer during the summer months. I did read that beer is good to naturally de-thatch your lawn. Since I'm not a beer drinker - I figure my lawn would like it.
Isn't it nice to just get-away like that.
Nature has helped me handle life and its troubles. It brings a peace that nothing can match except maybe being in the arms of a loved one.
I'm just figuring this out at this very moment.
"To question your government is not unpatriotic --
to not question your government is unpatriotic."
-- Sen. Chuck Hagel
i can't wait until i am better.
i am going to tear up some trails.
i need grass, trees, rain, and wildlife.
ferns, a thick labyrinth of multiple shades of green.
perfect for writing under a tree, relaxing smoking a few hits.
the birds, each one singing the ("hey dude, look at me i'm so beautiful and fun as i skip around branch to branch") song of sky.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
Our vacationing has changed the last years since PJ travels, we go to cities. I do miss the vacations where I can live in the woods, claim a park as home for a few days.
Those shades of green you describe, the ferns and moss in the deep woods, the smells and silence except for leaves in the breeze and the occasional bird alerting another, takes you to a different place mind and soul.
I can and do attempt to have that here in my yard. I have my backyard friends and garden. But there really is no replacement for being deep in the woods.
the 'recipe' and directions are sent
i'm not a beer drinker either...but i'm sure your lawn liked it
this has nothing to do with keeping deer from eating flowers/plants...
but across the street alongside the blackberries there was an old apple tree... in the fall the apples would fall to the ground and ferment...the deer loved to come along and eat them...my neighbors and i would giggle cause it did appear that a deer would "get buzzed" and stagger
angels share laughter
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Hi, BRANDI!!!
high
good morning
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Once oh what a time I could lose myself
Once oh what a time I could love myself
Once oh what a time I could love you"
And, to add to my skinned body and sunburn, I also dropped a curling iron on my chest today.... Fml, please, seriously. Lol
or when I burn my forehead with the curling iron before we are going somewhere and it looks like a big long red welt that no one can keep their eyes off of when I'm speaking to them.
Hope your sunburn gets better soon. I haven't had a chance to get mine yet this year