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CREATIVE  LANDSCAPES

'Elegant Environments for Your Home'

Topics of Interest:  Preventing Deer Damage

Deer have become an immense problem for many homeowners living in Delaware, Chester and Montgomery Counties, and the Main Line, PA.  Over the last 20 some years we have developed techniques that can help to minimize deer damage.

Deer tend to eat evergreens in the winter, and soft wooded deciduous shrubs as well as flowers in the spring, summer and fall.

There are three main approaches to preventing deer damage: Coexistence, Exclusion, and Discouragement.

The coexistence approach does not intend to prevent deer from entering an area, but to design plantings which deer do not like to eat.

We have had considerable success designing and planting shrubs, trees and flowers that are deer resistant.  

Creative Landscapes can design a landscape for you with plants that, from our experience, are not eaten by deer.

The exclusion approach is the only certain way to prevent deer damage, and may be preferable when you have large numbers of deer in your yard.  The presence of deer can also lead to people and pets getting Lyme Disease from deer ticks. 

A partially invisible black mesh fence is installed to protect a portion of your yard, or your complete property. Deer fencing is attached to existing trees and to poles spaced 16 feet apart.  Walkway gates can be installed for access, and driveway gates with or without remote control are also available.

Call Creative Landscapes today for an estimate to install deer fencing on your property.

The discouragement approach attempts to protect your most vulnerable shrubs with netting and repellent sprays, and your flowers with sprays.

To protect your evergreens in the winter follow these three steps:

1. Buy two 2 gallon pump-up sprayers, and a bottle each of 'Wilt-Pruf' and either 'Hinder' or 'Ropel, and a roll or more of deer netting.  You will also need some stones or bricks to weight the netting down.

2. Fill one of the sprayers according to the directions with Hinder (or Ropel) and coat all your evergreens up to a height of 6 feet.  The following day cover all the plants with Wilt-Pruf spray made up in the other sprayer.  The Wilt-Pruf will prevent the Hinder from washing off in the rain.

3. The next day cover all of your smaller evergreens (up to 4 feet high) with netting and hold the netting down with stones or bricks. The netting can be removed in April.

Protection of plants in the growing season is more difficult as repeated sprays are needed to protect new growth.  Deer particularly like annual and perennial flowers as well as some soft-wooded shrubs at this time of year.

Plants should be sprayed every two weeks in the spring and summer, on dry days, and after the sun is no longer on the plant (late afternoon or early morning is best).

We can co-exist with Bambi, but take precautions before it's too late!

Call Creative Landscapes today 610-565-9910 to discuss protecting your property from deer damage.

To set up an appointment with a Professional Designer call 610-565-9910 or Email designs@creativelandscapes.com  giving your name, phone numbers, address and a brief description of your project.

Creative Landscapes offers landscape design, hardscaping and landscaping in the Main Line, PA, Montgomery County, Delaware County, PA, and Chester County, PA.  Looking for a landscaper, landscape contractor or landscape designer?  We are landscapers serving Ardmore, PA 19003, Berwyn, PA 19312, Brookhaven, PA 19015, Broomall, PA 19008, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, Devon, PA 19333, Edgemont, PA 19028, East Goshen, PA 19380, Easttown, PA 19312,  Elwyn, PA 19063, Gladwyne, PA 19035, Glen Mills, PA 19342, Goshen, PA 19382, Gradyville, PA 19039, Gulph Mills, PA 19342, Haverford, PA 19041, Havertown, PA 19083, Ithan, PA 19085, Lower Merion, PA 19066, Malvern, PA 19355, Marple, PA 19008, Media, PA 19063, Merion, PA 19066, Narberth, PA 19072, Newtown Square, PA 19073, Paoli, PA 19301, Penn Valley, PA 19072, Penn Wynne, PA 19096, Radnor, PA 19087, Rosemont, PA 19010, Rose Valley, PA 19086, Springfield, PA 19064,  St. Davids, PA 19087, Strafford, PA 19087, Sugartown, PA 19355, Swarthmore, PA 19081, Tredyffrin, PA 19399, Upper Merion, PA 19406,  Upper Providence, PA 19063, Villanova, PA 19085, Wallingford, PA 19086, Wayne, PA 19087,  Willistown, PA 19028, Westtown, PA 19382, West Chester, PA 19382, Wynnewood, PA 19096. Services include deer resistant plantings, swimming pool design, patios, walls and walkways.