Last fall we planted TONS of tulips. A large flower bed in front of our house had TONS of bushes and wildflowers and would have been a gardner's dream if a gardner lived in our house. Over the course of the 2 years we have lived here we have managed to kill or pull out everything in the flower bed knowing that this summer we would replant tons of bushes that we never had to touch again. A Bisson Dream.
Well needless to say we have TONS of deer and apparently I was curious as to why the tulips have not bloomed when some daffodils that we missed pulling out have not only grown but bloomed. Upon further investigation and some helpful insight from locals........ The deer have eaten them as soon as they pop out of the ground. This flower bed did I forget to mention is only steps away from the front door. And yes last year when I got up in the middle of the night for some water, walked into the kitchen and there 2 feet from our door eating bushes in this spot was a rather large deer.
So needless to say, it does not look like we will be enjoying the beautiful tulips we told the girls while they were planting with us that they would be here for their birthday's every year. Instead we will just enjoy the daffodils. They are daffodils right?
4 comments:
i love tulips!
tulips are my favorite! darn deer! my brother in law sells organic spray that keeps deers away from lawns and such.
the girls with the flowers are so cute! (okay they are cute with just about anything!)
ps- sandy bey-buynak had a baby boy... no name yet
well, whatever they are, they are beautiful!
We discussed this today in a meeting, and the deer won't touch daffodils because they are bitter, and the tulips aren't so much.
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