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Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 15:52
| This rose was deer bait until I started spraying it with deer repellant. End of February and it's starting to leaf out. The only other rose doing much of anything is Red Wand, a miniature climber which seems to grow year round. |
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| RdV is a vigorous grower that's for sure! Even with winter die back mine gets huge every season. Leafing out means you'll have blooms soon!!! |
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- Posted by sweetannie4u midOK_z6b/7a (My Page) on Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 18:25
| That is a rose on my LIST. Glad you found a solution. Post pics when it blooms, will you? My three big dogs keep the deer out of my gardens. I find their hoof prints ALL AROUND our property and occasionally in the back yard, but they don't linger to forage on account of the dogs. Thank goodness. ~Annie |
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| Mine just arrived from ARE, but she put out a single bud already! |
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- Posted by sweetannie4u midOK_z6b/7a (My Page) on Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 19:45
| Oh...I'm so envious of you guys! I'm on a Violet and Mauve rose kick. Can't get enough of those hues! Best wishes for your violettes! |
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- Posted by deervssteve 9 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 19:49
| The bush is over 10 years old about 2 feet tall and spindly. Every spring it would do really well and then get massacred. At one time I had over 100 bushes and spraying them constantly was more than I wanted to deal with. I have maybe four of five roses that I can spray now and that is more manageable. Next to the RDV is a Portland from Glendora which is a beast over 6 feet tall and over 8 feet wide. I was reluctant to cut it back because the deer nibbled on the bottom and left the top alone. I'm going to clean it up and spray it. I have a Beauty of Glazenwood that will go into bloom in the next few months. It climbed a rock ledge through a fence into some trees. It puts on quite a show for a little while and the deer would need extension ladders to get to the growth. I'll take some pictures of these roses when they are in bloom. |
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| Dunno if it would work for you but Michael Shoup had an interesting suggestion: Instead of caging roses with wire, lay chickenwire on the ground around the plants, held slightly off the ground by bricks. Plant groundcover through the wire to hide it. He said the deer don't like to step on the wire surface. Don't know how hard it would be for people to approach the plants. I'm gonna experiment with this--maybe give myself a few bricks wide for stepping close. |
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