Strategies to Control Deer in Landscapes
Dr. Leonard Perry, Horticulturist in Residence, King’s Garden Horticulture Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont Deer have become one of the most serious problems in gardens and landscapes, including the King’s Garden. If you’ve been there near closing time, you may have seen the staff putting up the single strand electric wire fence around the beds […]
Rabbits in the Garden
Public gardens, like the King’s Garden, have some of the same wildlife pressures found in home gardens—in this case, rabbits. “Isn’t he cute” might be an expression you use watching cottontail rabbits hop about, unless you’re a gardener and they’re enjoying your plantings, in the food sense. Knowing a bit about rabbits, you can choose […]