![]() ![]() While we love our garden, we also didn’t want to use any cruel methods that would hurt the deer. What we wanted to do was learn how we could use companion planting and repellents to keep the local herd from destroying our roses. ![]() Protecting our plants from deer became a small obsession after they devastated our garden and left our rose bushes completely stripped. Since a single deer can eat 5-15lbs of leaves, buds, and shoots in a day, you can imagine the damage even a small herd can do to your climbing roses. Yes, they will snack away on even the thorny canes of climbing roses, causing significant destruction to your rose arbors or wall trellises. With their heavy sprays of blooms, your sprawling climbers are sadly not exempt from your local deer’s diet. They will eat miniature roses as they are not bothered by the small thorns on these varieties and will quickly strip and eat every part of your miniature rose bushes. They also enjoy eating berries and fruits, such as the hips on your rose plants. The deer will bite through as much of the hard stem as possible, then tear the rest free.ĭeer are herbivorous mammals that feed on many garden plants, including thorny ones and those poisonous to sheep and cattle.
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