Weedwhacker said:
First, NOTHING is actually "deer proof,"
they've never touched my bleeding hearts, flowering tobacco, astilbe, columbine, foxglove, baptisia, or marigolds. If you are set on growing plants that the deer particularly like, you need to protect them with an enclosure of some sort.
Weedwhacker said: .
First, NOTHING is actually "deer proof," but some things are less bothered by the deer
Weedwhacker said: Bea, I didn't say that I ate the rhubarb leaves -- the deer ate them. And I was surprised, for the reasons you mentioned. (But I didn't find any dead deer lying around.)
bumplbea said: Funny the leaves are what the deer eat…
Weedwhacker said: It may have had something to do with the fact that I grow "Glaskin's Perpetual" rhubarb, which is supposed to be somewhat lower in oxalic acid. But, I think they tend to sample pretty much everything and then later avoid the ones that weren't that great.