Oh, deer!
One of the questions Iâm asked most frequently by readers is, âWhat can I do about the deer?â Such a query came a few weeks ago from Mary Ann Rogers, who emailed me, looking for advice. Rogers wrote:
âDeer eat my hydrangeas, both macrophylla and paniculata, every year. Goodbye blooms; hello stick-like, irregular ugliness. And I just noticed that, since the hydrangeas were âgone,â the PJM rhododendrons are now bare. Yikes! We moved here five years ago, and I have been struggling to fend them [the deer] off. I am unable to keep up with regular spraying, and no way we would erect high fences all around our one-acre plot.â