The Deer ain't Here

What's that you see on the top photo? It's a rose! For the first time in several years our roses (and other flowers) have a chance to grow.

For the past few years, rose buds form, but are strangely severed before they bloomed. But this year all our roses have been able to bloom fully.

We suspect that the deer paths changed when the field behind our house was developed into a park.

In our part of the country deer are regarded as rats with hoofs. They are blamed by gardeners for everything from the loss of vegetables to joint stiffness after digging. They seem to be omnivores whose feasts include not only roses, but coreopsis as well. So, see what came back this year...