Debra ...
You would never imagine the damage one doe could do. It took three tries to finally get every possible entrance to the house pad garden blocked. We would block two or three and then she would find another one. We blocked the new entry point and then we would block any other block any other possible entrance point we had not thought of the first round. The she ate all of the vinca on the slope by the stairs going up from the street level and found a way under the fence. So we blocked the whole slope. Before we got that slope blocked, she managed to get into the fenced street rose ... Linda Campbell ... and deer pruned that rose. I do NOT know how she managed to get out of the deer cage.
Then some how she managed to push the deer cage surrounding the Cardnal Hume bed on the lawn level in to eat the front of that shrub and most of 'Margo Koster'. Once I fixed that problem, she decided to eat my star magnolia. She ate all of my blue eyed grass and all of the other "deer resistant" plants out in front of the house.
The only roses not deer pruned are the five in the top tier in front of the house. That deer cage held.
I know this is going to sound terrible, but I hope she gets hers. Last evening when I was up at the top of the slope checking the fence, I saw several cougar tracks. With all of this rain, it is pretty muddy, but not sloppy muddy up there. This is the first time I've seen cat tracks on my property. There's no doubt in my mind that they were cougar tracks. At least I could see that they were headed OUT of my property towards the deer trail on the other side of my deer fence up there.
Spring is coming and I'll have a lot of work reshaping everything.
