Beautiful.

That tall might be a Bloodgood. That's the most common, large landscape tree. Your LANDSCAPER didn't know its variety? Huh?

I never asked him. Just said I wanted a red maple.

This is all new to me.

A buck pretty much ruined my Seiryu JM the other day by rubbing. Sucks. :(

Look what happened to one of my seed origin Japanese maples. Last year a buck turned it into a walking stick. I left it and it sprouted from the base. Then the deer came back and nibbled the new growth. At least this is in one of the more undeveloped areas of the garden.

Mike

miketann We put deer fencing around it. Ours is in the front of our property so I didn't want to chance it.

I'm sorry about your tree :(

I could post a gallery of deer damage shots on my Japanese maples. So far they haven't killed any, but fairly close as shown in my picture above. I have too many to fence over ten acres and can't deer proof that much area. :-)

The tree will recover and probably be hit again in a few years. Things are more interesting this way!

Mike

I'm in your shoes, miketann. I'm so sorry about that "walking stick! They did the same procedure to about a 10 year old Inazuma. I did, however, put a Vitifolium, Aconitifolium, Attaryi, Kinran, and two others that escape me right now, in the ground. They're 6-8 years old and have withstood full sun, so...

That said, I'm going to cage them, simply because of the deer ravages. They've eaten anything that was supposed to have some winter life, so that's gone. I have deer hoof prints in my raised garden beds.

I used something this year, which made a big difference. You have to stay on it and spray every new leaf of something, but why not? I have a huge investment in my gardens and trees.

I bought Deer Stop. Not Deer Stopper, just STOP. It is pretty icky going on, but once dry you can't smell it , unlike other products. You also don't smell it walking by a tree, either. It seemed to work, because anything I sprayed, they didn't eat. Miss a leaf? SNIP.

I currently have bow hunters on the back 6 acres. It is their assignment to kill (and eat) as many as they can. Strangely, the deer seem to only reside in my FRONT yard. But I do stand by the Deer Stopper. Next warm day I'm going to put some on some things I want to protect. 100 days of protection isn't bad.

Thank you CEFreeman. Looks like I just might get some.

There is one spot the bucks like year after year and establish their territory there. It has the only water in the immediate area, territorial view, and 40 acres of forest behind it. That's where I'll use it first.

Thanks again,

Mike

Good luck.
I"ve come to hate them.
Since my last dog died a year ago, they're fearless.
They look in my back sliders and just twitch their ears at the crazy lady screaming and wildly waving her arms. I think that's how deer laugh.