Bonehead said: I had read that the oak-leaf variety are more deer resistant ... ?
I haven't seen this.
The deer down here... love Oak leaf hydrangea.
The only way to keep them alive is to grow them inside a fence... I actually know someone who has a small fence around her patch of oak leaf hydrangeas... the other stuff in her yard... she sprays with coyote urine, and other nice things. But... some things cannot be protected... with repellants.
