black-tailed deer

Kathleen Sayce ksayce@willapabay.org
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 08:58:24 PST
On the PNW coast, black-tailed deer eat rhodie flower buds, they can strip the flowers to be in minutes, right in front of your eyes, and they also nibble hard on Douglas-fir and western red cedar shoots. Big-leaf maple is another target, as is vine maple. To grow all these trees,  you have to protect them until they are more than 7 ft tall. They leave crocus and daffodils alone, however. A BT deer ate the budding shoot of my lone surviving grown from seed Eremerus one year. 

Kathleen 




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