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| I know this has been asked before and I have done a search...was hoping I could get some advice from someone in my area. I garden in southern Dutchess County, close to the CT border and very close to Putnam County.
I live on a wooded property with tons of deer. They pretty much eat everything. However they do not eat my New Dawn roses. Maybe once or twice during the season I will sprinkle some milorganite around them both as a fertilizer and as a deer deterrent but I suspect they are either repelled by the thorns or don't like them as that amount of milorganite would never keep them from my hydrangeas, hostas etc. So....would they leave my rugosa roses alone too? I would love to plant some but am running out of room in the fenced area of my garden. It seems like the experience of others is mixed when it comes to rugosas and deer...what do you think? Is it worth a try? |
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| Oh...forgot to ask...does anyone know why the deer do not touch rosa multiflora? Wondering if what attributes might repel them. Because of course, r. multiflora thrives all over my property if given an inch... :-) |
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| According to the deer-departed website, rugosa roses repel dear with their strong clove rose fragrance. The link includes several lists of deer resistant roses. You should contact them about New Dawn. They also have lists of other rarely damaged plants. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Deer Resistant Roses
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| Thanks! |
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- Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 4 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 12, 12 at 13:33
| My deer will eat the Therese Bugnet and the Snow Pavement roses, when they were out, in the kitchen garden. They didn't eat them to the ground, but they did eat the tips and flowers. If yours are ignoring the New Dawn...congratualtions! Maybe I should try a few in the garden. All my roses do best, up aginst the house and hidden behind lavender and other herbs...along with deer resistant perennials. All deer are different and maybe the New Dawn is similar to the multiflora...and the deer don't like it, so they leave the New Dawn alone. My deer don't like the daffodils or hyacinths, so by the time the tulips bloom (behind them) they don't try them, either. Best of luck with the rugosas. Very thorny ones will probably work best. Let us know if it works, because I'd love to try some truly deer-resistant roses, out in the kitchen garden! :)
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| Thanks! Hoping the thorns will do their job!! |
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- Posted by annececilia z4a/N.Michigan (My Page) on Mon, Mar 12, 12 at 20:09
| Ha! "My" deer come in and browse on my rugosa's all the time (Belle Pointevine, Magnifica, Marie and Therese Bugnet, Agnes and Fru Dagmar.) I don't believe for a minute the idea that the clove scent would repel them - and I wouldn't count on the thorns dissuading them either, if I were you. In my experience, deer will eat whatever strikes their fancy, thorny or not. |
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| Ugh. Deep down inside I fear the same!! But why don't they eat my New Dawn? I guess I should accept defeat from the get go :-( |
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| I recently moved to a new house and am starting my rose growing addiction anew. However, this house is like yours - in the woods, where the deer live. The deer rest, eat and have their babies about 75 feet from my back deck. I've been starting slowly with my plants - experimenting along the way with a multi level "deer resistant" approach. I spray liqui-fence, I use these hockey puck things, and I plant with caution - watching what they go for and what they don't. I started planting last summer. I buy 2 or 3 of a given rose, plant them, do my "resistant" thing, and see what comes of it. My plan is to by larger numbers of the ones they seem to leave alone. Interesting discovery; one I did not expect.... the deer do not eat my "Living Easy" roses. Makes me want to buy a hundred of them. I haven't been out in the gardens yet to really assess rest. I planted a number of rugosas b/c of what I read here. I can't wait to go see how all the plants are doing. They sure love eating my "Peace" rose! New Dawn is on my list for this year. Miss Mary |
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| Maybe they vary in taste: "My" deer loves my New Dawn. The only rose they left alone is a hybrid tea. My theory is that they left the HT alone because the buds are too high (about 6 to 8 feet), and they don't like taking the effort to reach up. I fenced all my roses in now so the deer cannot get them. (Fingers crossed). My New Dawn is in its second year now, and is matching the HT in height. I suspect that they will mostly leave it alone now and will be eating up the shorter ones. |
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| I am not far from you in Westchester co. the deer here was a big problem.Now we have coyotes and very few deer and rabbits. |
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- Posted by roseblush1 8a/Sunset 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 25, 12 at 22:23
| I live in an old gold mining town in the mountains of northern California. We have plenty of deer predators ... coyotes and cougars ... and a fine healthy deer population. In the years I've lived up here, I have seen the deer break every rule or theory of deer protection except for a high wire fence. The theory is that anything that disturbs their sense of smell works as a deterrent, but I have seen deer tip toe through a wide bed of rosemary to get to a friend's roses. I've seen deer leap up to grab the new growth of a rose that has successfully climbed a tree. I've seen them eating roses that were so thorny, I called them vampire roses. Yes, they even eat the buds of my rugosa that happen to stick through the fence. Even a fence isn't a perfect solution to deter a determined deer. One year a neighbors dog dug a hole under my fence and some how a doe managed to get into my rose garden. When I went after her, she went through the fence to get away from me. Of course, she had had a taste of deer candy ... rose buds and really, really wanted back into my garden. It was almost like a cartoon. Every time I repaired or blocked entry into the garden, she found another way in. That whole rose season, I was constantly having to put up more barriers to keep her out. How she got past some of them still amazes me. I finally managed to get the garden protected so that she could not get back in, but ended up truly believing that theory about them avoiding a plant/rose because of something messes up their sense of smell is something the deer don't really understand. Smiles, |
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