Sometimes, even a female Bambi eyes wear out their welcome. Deer have been banned in many gardens, orchards and fields, and that damage or destroy the young shoots of many trees, and flowers fragile.
"In high density, deer will eat almost anything in the landscape," said Paul Curtis, a wildlife specialist with the extension of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY "orchard and nursery crops industry are particularly susceptible. It is almost impossible without some kind of plant protection from deer. "
Network can go and fences to free ranging dogs, repellents and deer-resistant plants - often in combination.
The problem is enormous. Deer numbers have soared from less than 500,000 nationwide in 1900 to a current 25 million to 30 million.
"New homes in rural areas have become sanctuaries for deer," said Curtis. "Most areas are no longer hunt. That makes for subsidized grazing."
Deer bring other charges, as well, including car accidents, Lyme disease, and extensive wildflowers and forest loss.
"You can actually do some work on timber seedlings browsed during the winter months," said Curtis. "Trillium and various kinds of lady's slippers are particularly sensitive to grazing deer. We have a wild flower garden of seven acres at school and we had to put up a fence of 10 feet high around it."
Not everyone likes the installation of physical barriers, however.
"Part of having a garden is certainly an attitude of wanting to be part of nature rather than shut out," said Ruth Clausen, author of 50 plants resistant to deer Beautiful "new.
No plant is deer proof, Clausen said, but the animals feed selectively and ignore certain plants if the alternatives offered.
"Many plants are unacceptable impressive deer, due to its toxic textures, blurred, or aromatic leaves, hard, thorny or spiky," he said.
Well known that plants Clausen cloud "deer candy" that could attract foraging insects include: phlox, azaleas, chrysanthemums, clematis, daylilies, hostas, hydrangeas, leaf lettuce, petunias, strawberries and ornamental sweet potato vines .
Considered deer resistant plants are selected marigolds, peonies, yarrow, bleeding hearts, hellebores many, English lavender, Weigela, Japanese painted ferns, daffodils and ornamental grasses.