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Articles tagged deer

• Animal Damage

  | Category: Tree & Plant Care | Tags: Animal Damage, rabbits, mice, squirrels, deer, sapsuckers
  Deer Damage Deer can cause two types of damage to plants: rubbing or battering by antlers and browsing. Battering usually occurs prior to the deer's rutting season, in late summer and early fall, as male deer rub their antlers against young trees,...

• Holmstrup Eastern Arborvitae

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Arborvitae, deer, Intermediate-Sized Evergreens for the Home Landsca
  Botanical Name: Thuja occidentalis 'Holmstrup'Common Name: Holmstrup Eastern Arborvitae Click on an image to enlarge A hedge of Holmstrup Eastern Arborvitae A close-up of immature cones Height: 6-8' Spread: 2-3' Habit/Form:...

• April 3, 2009 Plant Health Care Report

  | Category: Plant Health Care Reports | Tags: BAGWORMS, winter damage, voles, salt, rabbits, plant health care, pine bark adelgids, PHC, Oak Wilt, hemlock needleminers, gypsy moths, dothistroma, deer, April, witches broom of hackberry
    Plant Health Care Report from April 3, 2009. Topics include: rabbits,   Download the report- (PDF)

• April 2, 2010 Plant Health Care Report

  | Category: Plant Health Care Reports | Tags: brown rot, BAGWORMS, gypsy moths, dothistroma, vole, rabbit, deer, winter damage, salt damage, Juniper webworm
  This issue includes information on many items including: Bagworms, Gypsy moth egg masses, Juniper webworm, Brown rot of stone fruit, Dothistroma needle blight, Vole, Rabbit, Deer, Winter, and Salt damage.  The feature article is So what are degree...

• Deerproof™ Giant Arborvitae

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Arborvitae, deer, Intermediate-Sized Evergreens for the Home Landsca
  Botanical Name: Thuja plicata 'KLMfive' Common Name: Deerproof™ Giant Arborvitae Height: 40-50' Spread: 15-25'Habit/Form: Narrow, pyramidal Growth Rate: M/F Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part shade; moist, well-drained soil; pH...

• Coralberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, deer, Low growing shrubs, native, not favored by deer, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Common Name: CoralberryBotanical Name: Symphoricarpos orbiculatus* Form Winter form Fruit Click an image to enlarge Height: 2-5' Spread: 4-8' Form: Upright arching Rate:Fast (more than 12 inches per year)Zone: 2-7...