Design a Deer-Defying Garden
Deer can turn a verdant landscape into an unattractive garden of chomped stems and damaged trees overnight. But before you resort to pungent chemicals and obtrusive fencing, consider strategic design choices that reroute deer from their favorite plants. By relying on plants that deer won’t eat and employing a few design techniques, it’s possible to prevent your garden from becoming a deer buffet. We turned to Ruth Rogers Clausen, co-author of Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast, to find out more about some of these successful strategies for anyone gardening in deer country.
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