A Deer’s Love Note from The Garden by Connie Cottingham

by on 04. Aug, 2012 in ATG Guest Post

I am graceful, I am beautiful, I am fast.  I cannot only run like the wind, leaping effortlessly, but I can devour your most precious vegetables, hostas and hydrangeas so very, very quickly. I cannot help myself. Your garden is so full of delectable, juicy foliage and luscious blooms.

Unless, of course you have applied one of the many effective deer repellents – some with herbal scents that you don’t even mind mixing and spraying. Some that last through a few rains and for a few weeks.

You clever human, making me resort to dining on common grass instead of the pretties in your landscape.

And then – oh, then – you plant landscape plants that you know I detest! Lantana! Cooking herbs like rosemary and oregano! Salvias! Where did you get that list of plants and those ideas to foil my dining plans? Ah ha! Here is your game plan!

Love (despite your clever tricks,) 

Deer

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Connie Cottingham

Hi, I’m Connie, and I have been gardening for decades. I am a landscape architect, a lifetime master gardener, a garden writer, a garden club member and spend almost every day in a botanical garden. I am here to hold the hand of an uncertain gardener and tell them how to nurture their space and themselves, how gardening can bring joy and lessons, and how travel to other gardens can also bring joy and lessons. And I want them to understand the many ways a garden can give back to its caregiver. A columnist for Georgia Gardening and Southern Distinction magazines, I have been published in Conifer Quarterly, History, Lee, Museum Store, Country Journal, GEORGIA, Columbia County, Georgia Family and New South Gardener magazines and have written many newspaper garden columns.

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One Response to “A Deer’s Love Note from The Garden by Connie Cottingham”

  1. Elizabeth Rago 07. Aug, 2012 at 3:19 pm #

    Connie,
    I am really, really loving this series of essays! I am really looking forward to see what else the garden has to “say” to me!
    -Elizabeth