Giant brown yard rats!
I've been doing lots of planting of shrubs, grasses & flowers. The deer have been coming right along behind to chew everything down to the ground. I'm constantly on a quest for "deer resistant" (yeah right!). I tell the nursery staff I don't want resistant, I want them to eat it, choke to death and die.
I recently planted some Mexican Cardinal flowers. The description says "don't water it, or it will become invasive", just what I'm looking for! It's like "crack" to hummingbirds and butterflies, yet another huge selling point. It spreads like lightening and will stay in flower for months on end, yay! The best part "all parts of the plant are toxic". All that means to me is don't throw trimmings into the field with the sheep/alpaca/llama and my chickens don't free range in the front yard anyway. When I planted the first one, the big brown rats did some trimming during the night. So far they haven't touched the second one I put in. I keep hoping to get up in the morning and find the lawn littered with the corpses of Bambi and his family. Those are holes I'd be willing to dig! The neighbor has a tractor and would come help.
Can you tell how I feel about deer?
They are lovely to watch grazing and I frequently stop to watch them...................................in the neighbor's yard!
Luckily it was not the kind that causes Lyme disease.
