I know a little bit about prickly pear. The neighbor down at the corner has some
in his garden.
I guess deer would just walk through a "moat" of daffodils to get to the tasty
goodies within.
On 6/29/2021 22:29:15, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
The deer don't eat daffodils, but they aren't repelled by them either.
Prickly pears, o the other hand, are difficult to cross over, even for
deer. They have large, hard spines that can pierce deeply and small,
hairlike prickles that readily adhere to skin. They are common in drier
areas of Hawaii, especially on Maui and The Big Island, and Hawaiians call
them panini.
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 6:06 PM John <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
I wonder if you could plant prickly pear and daffodils to form kind of a
moat
around the other plants to keep the deer from being able to reach them?
I don't know anything about gardening except that several of my neighbors
have
nice ones that I don't have to do any of the work, but can still enjoy
viewing
them, so take that suggestion for whatever it's worth.
On 6/29/2021 15:48:30, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Our local deer herds eat almost everything, except daffodils. Another
plant they avoid is the prickly pear cactus, and we have let that spread
as
a ground cover in areas where other plants can't prosper or would be
devoured. A bonus is that, in late spring, they bear the most beautiful
yellow flowers, which usually peak around fathers' day.
This is one of the flowers from this year's bumper crop:
http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2021/6/29/cactus
K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm Macro F 2.8 Limited
Comments, criticisms, suggestions, and questions are all invited and
welcome.
Dan Matyola
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