rain rain rain, that’s mostly what we’ve had around here.
besides the fact that the weeds are sprouting up too fast for me to keep up with them, the rain also washes away the deer spray.
yesterday a deer was happily munching on some of amy’s flowers and then wandered across to my side yard to start in on mine. luckily amy chased her away and then sprayed my flowers for me. THANKS, AMY!
i spent three days weeding weeding weeding and finally munching the entire side of the house. mom helped one of the days which was awesome.
here’s the section with the lilies and the hydrangea in back; the hydrangea are doing fantastic this year, but if left untreated the deer will eat them in addition to the delectable lily buds and flowers.
the other day i realized the deer had eaten half of the tops of these spiky purple flowers in the front; they look a little bit like thistles, and people always think they’re weeds, and they keep spreading like crazy.
the little spiky tops which eventually get big and purple when in bloom are spiky to the touch and what kind of deer would eat them?
this girl.
yesterday i was sitting in the fenced yard and heard a little sound and it was this deer eating a bunch of honeysuckle. why can’t she be satisfied with that, the honeysuckle has sweet blooms and it spreads like crazy and i have to pull it all the time?!
when i took the photo she trotted around to the back and i had to yell at her to get away from the hostas.
that was all well and good, but then, this morning…
these are the hostas at the back of the fenced yard. it took me a long time to individually pull and also use the shovel to dig the tall grasses that had sprung up inside and around the hostas. they’d looked so bad for such a long time, and i spent over three hours yesterday weeding like mad and spreading some mulch.
and last night i know that deer said to herself,”how nice of them to get rid of the really not tasty weeds, plus the sweet and delicious hostas are now framed with the lovely red mulch!”
she ate half of the hostas outside the side of the fence. these are closest to the house; she clearly doesn’t give a damn about proximity to us. she’ll probably be moving in soon!
and finally…sometimes they’ve nibbled on these hostas at the bottom of the deck, but nobody has ever ravaged them like this.
maybe the deer are somehow attracted because of the mulch? because i think that i’ve run out of mulch and energy instead of mulching in these areas, plus the hostas have been so huge that you couldn’t see the mulch anyway.
so anyway, that’s the problem here in paradise. i’ll keep spraying, but i sprayed today and it started raining abou 10 minutes later, and it’s gonna rain again at 4:00, and then later, and then tomorrow…
maybe there’s some kind of thing that would be a deterrent? something like the fake owls that are supposed to scare away the woodpeckers.
i must look into that…
i have lots of photos of our sweet kitties, but right now i must get back outside because it’s fairly lovely out at the moment.
ok then,
mrs. sunday afternoon hughes.
p.s. have you seen “rocketman?” it’s AWESOME!