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Deer Resistant Plants

To find out what is deer proof in your neighbourhood, look at your neighbours’ landscapes. Are there any particular plants that the deer tend to leave alone? That will give you a good idea of what the deer will leave alone in your neighbourhood.   Ask around and see if there is a general consensus [...]

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Boxwood: Deer Proof Evergreen Shrub

Is boxwood deer proof? The answer is “yes”.
Keep in mind, though,  that if deer have the run of a property, they will taste just about anything new that appears.  As one writer remarked: “They’re in the restaurant and they’re going to try the entire smorgasbord.”
Boxwood is a slow-growing evergreen deer proof shrub. It can be [...]

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Deer Proof Your Garden: 4 Foot Double Fence

A little known fact about deer is that although they are good jumpers, they don’t like to jump wide and high at the same time. Gardeners can take advantage of this by building a double fence.   Homegrown Gardens explains how this is done:
The key is to build two parallel fences, about four feet tall, and [...]

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