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Deer Control While we love Deer as much as anyone, our Dodge road, Amherst, NY Nursery has been foraged heavier each year since the late 1960's. Since that time we have been working with NYSDEC wildlife biologist, Jim Snider and have all but eliminated Deer damage. We believe we have more Deer Control experience than anyone else in Western New York and have tested almost every device and control measure available at our Dodge Road Nursery, at clients homes and at our owners home off Casey Road in Amherst , NY where Deer are present 52 weeks a year in his backyard. Our current recommendations (October 2005): Deer Block Netting - the most effective deterrent. Installed properly by draping over plants, not as a fence, we see this as the most sure thing without making your home look like a detention center by installing fencing all around. This Netting is not visible from the street and comes in several sizes the most popular is 7' x 100'. ( Installation available locally 688-9125) TIP-- It is very handy to drape over your plants in early fall and use it to keep the leaves out of your plantings. Just lift off and use like a leaf tarp , then reinstall as Deer Deterrent afterwards! In heaviest Deer population areas like our own Amherst, NY the only repellants that have tested effective are Repellex, and Liquid Fence. REPELLEX is now our most effective product not only because of ingredients , but also it has a non-clogging applicator and a latex carrier that outlasts the others! All other methods and products have failed in our tests including: human hair, soaps, chewnott, electric shockers, sonic emitters etc. Burlap used to prevent wind burn (very ugly indeed) has been consistently chewed by deer in heavy populations. We formerly listed here the plants did not eat, but this is impossible in areas like Northern Erie County with a Deer population 3 times the size that nature supplies for. The following lists is their least favorite plants but the list shrinks annually: Plants not listed are considered moderate danger of deer and will be depend on neighborhood and weather SHRUBS: all-spice, barberry, bamboo, clethra, deutzia, forsythia, hypericum, kerria, potentilla, spirea, snowberry, lilacs,, viburnum, weigela, willow. EVERGREENS juniper, boxwood, cotoneaster, mahonia, andromeda, spruce, pyracantha, green giant arborvitae, TREES: Maple,beech, birch, hornbeam, elm, redbud, dogwood, hawthorn, tulip tree, ash, ginkgo, locust, magnolia, spruce, oak, willow. PERENNIALS: Achillea, aconitum, ajuga, alchemilla, aquilegia, astilbe, chrysanthemum, chelone, cimicifuga, clematis, coreopsis, dicentra , echinacea, epimedium, geranium , hibiscus, lamium, iris, sanguineum, lavendula, liatrius, monarda, ostrich fern, osmunda fern, paonia, plumbago, perovskia, rudbeckia, salvia, sedum, stachys, veronica.
DEER FAVORITE FOODS - this group we are sure of, if these are present they will eat these first: Euonymus, burning bush, Ilex japanese holly, blue hollies, mt. laurel, rhododendron, taxus yews, roses, mulberry, hemlock and most Arborvitae (or Cedar in Canadian) More reading from Universities; |
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