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Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners throughout North America suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky mammals devour their gardens and landscape plants. Deer-Resistant Landscaping arms homeowners with the proven strategies they need to repel and combat deer and 21 other troubling pests, from armadillos, chipmunks, and gophers to rabbits, raccoons, skunks, and squirrels.
Outstanding features include:
– strategies for every season and every size pest— from simple, low-cost home remedies, scare tactics, and deterrents to live trapping, barriers, and community action procedures suitable for more intense problems
– interviews with and tips from regional gardening and wildlife control experts from coast to coast
– encyclopedic coverage of more than 1,000 resistant plants—especially those least likely to be grazed upon or destroyed by deer, based on scientific studies and a consensus of gardening authorities throughout the continent
– stunning full-color wildlife photography featuring deer and pest behaviors as well as solutions and deterrents
With more than 400 of the author’s own gorgeous wildlife photos as well as ones by the legendary naturalist Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, the most published wildlife photographer in North America, Deer-Resistant Landscaping provides the most wide-ranging, authoritative, and helpful information on this topic ever assembled in one volume.
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21 animal pests – thorough on habits and management options The title of this book understates what it provides. It is about much more than deer — rats, voles, woodchucks, and many other animals are covered. Usually when I research a problem varmint, I find either natural history (animal habit info) or pest control information. I rarely find the two integrated together as they are in this book. I own an Audubon Society book on mammals, which is good to understand how they live in the wild, but not so good when figuring out my control options. Usually I bypass deer control books (nothing new under the sun) but this book – containing so much more info – caught my eye.Neil Soderstrom provides facts and insights for understanding the history and habits of the animal one is dealing with, and provides control and management options for real-world situations.I think highly enough of this book that I gave it as a gift to a wildlife control professional I know.It is a thorough effort and well worth owning. It is not a superficial treatment that you can pick up in a quick scan while standing in a book store — much more effort and substance has gone into this book. I heard Soderstrom speak and clearly he was completely immersed in understanding his subject matter. I do recommend this book.
Encourage deer to dine elsewhere Spring brought unwelcome vistas of straggly yews around the foundation of our house for several years. Each time I replaced a badly damaged yew, the deer only ate the replacement with renewed relish. Nibbling yews can kill cattle and sheep, but not white-tailed deer who chomp on them with immunity and impunity. What to do? Why not replace the wretched-looking yews with native species that have had centuries to develop tastes and odors that deer loathe. This book provided a gallery of unpalatable but lovely choices that had been researched by gardeners throughout the United States. After careful reading, I consulted a local horticulturist who specializes in propagating native species and am now anticipating planting a deer-proof yard.
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