Hosta lovers! The latest in designing with hostas!!!!

Take one lush beautiful hosta....


The requisite lush beautiful hosta ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )


Add one hungry deer.....(imagine a photo of a hungry deer here)

And VOILA!!! the latest fashion in hosta design!!




Hosta crewcut!!!!! ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )






Or, the partial crewcut ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )






This hosta opted for the total crewcut ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )

 

What a shame. I quit growing them years ago for the animals.

 

Oh Mary That was not what I was expecting!!!!
How frustrating :'( and sad. Mom has the same problem with hers except her predators are slugs :-x Philip gave me a recipe to spray on my zinnias to keep the deer away. I will find it for you!!!

 

OMG!! I haven't seen damage that bad around here YET, but I feel for you. I currently have hungry bunnies and chipmunks, but even they haven't done that kind of damage yet. Stratsmom - you have deer eating your zinnia's?? I have never heard of that, in fact that is one of the reasons that I plant so many Zinnia's! I guess if creatures are hungry enough they will eat anything!

 

Sorry for your loss, but thank you for the giggle

 

:'( Where are the bears when you need them?!

I had a farmers market this morning..(it is Saturday, whatever else would I be doing, huh?) and one of the customers remarked..." I looked out the window this morning and saw something didn't look right outside. so, I went to look closer and here my hydrangea was gone, my hostas were gone and (something else, I can't remember what) was gone!!!! the deer ate them last night.

 

Oh! Dear, deer, deer....

As I said before, coyote urine, moth flakes, and dried blood.

 

Strats--I would really appreciate that. I have been doing complicated things with fishline strung everywhere, but just as I discourage them from one area, they move to another.

But seriously everyone, when I posted this, I was trying to be funny. I have been battling the deer so long, I thought the crewcuts were pretty comical.

I posted this reply before I read the others from Barb & Jewell & Carolyn. I am glad you got my humor! I'll have to get after them with dried blood, urine, etc.

 

Alternating electric fencing and very big dog works great too. The great blue heron, city deer and racoons would destroy my yard if not for those and I have a six foot ivy covered wire fence too.

Standing on the Huglekultur yesterday (trying to settle the soil and stomp any rats away..dog got one) noticed a buck in velvet in the neighbor's yard.

CM those photos and your commentary are priceless. I giggle every time I've thought about it today.

 

Hmmmm?? It seems that while a similar fate befell one of by hostas, only the side and not the upper part of the plant were on the menu. I surmised from the presence of upper leaves that the dinner guest was not a deer but a rabbit. Thus our local Sylvilagus floridanus has incurred my wrath. Perhaps I was a bit hasty in my judgement. I will now redirect my verbal insults any Odocoileus virginianus within hearing range. I will however limit my mea culpas as our four footed lawnmower has been caught in the past with its paw in the veggie jar(last years Campanula massacre). On a good note the local spring footed vegetarian has not found a Campanula that bloomed yesterday. Tucked away in the tall growth of daylilies and garden phlox the flower has been heard hurling insulting barbs at the bewildered rabbit. Lets hope the rabbit does not find my machete.

Jerry

 

Jerry--I have had the same bunny experience this year. For the past 2 years, a baby bunny has munched his way through all my campanulas. Not so this year! This year the local bunny prefers grass, an aster, some kind of weed, but has left the campanula alone! Interesting, huh?

 

My ex-roommate had exactly the same thing happen to her hostas, year after year, no matter what she tried. It was only after she began ringing her plants with mothballs that they finally stopped getting eaten!

 

I can get you some great venison recipes. Which reminds me... We have a few pieces still in the freezer I need to get used up.

 

Sad story... and funny at the same time.
Good luck keeping them from eating anything else.