Quite a few daffodils have sprouted foliage this fall, and this morning on my “walk about,” I saw that the deer had been munching on this miniature! Along with some daylily and Oriental poppy foliage. I didn’t actually SEE the deer, but their footprints are all through the daffodil bed. So now I guess I have to tell people that deer don’t USUALLY eat daffodils.
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As I have always said. The best deer are venison :-)
Harold
It is wrong that deer do not eat daffodils, they eat the flowers right off here time and again. They do not seem to eat the foliage much.
Nancy Wilson
Nancy,
I’ve always had to keep my miniature species, and all the miniatures that first come up in the fall, eg., jonquilla, and bulbocodium behind fences because deer will eat the foliage to the ground. Actually I’ve been doing that for better than 15 years now; that’s about the same length of time that I have been buying them from you.
Clay
Friends,
Deer frequent my daffodil beds at night on a regular basis. I have observed foilage eaten back to the ground, particularly that of the jonquil species and Campernelles. However, they don’t seem to partake of a second meal when the foliage grows back. I think that the first meal was not particularly ejoyable, particularly to the stomach! Also, I think that most of the deer that partake of my daffodils are yearlings or two-year-olds. The adults probably have learned not to eat daffodil foliage because it likely did not make their stomachs feel too good!
Have a and Blessed Merry Christmas.
Just glad to still be here!
Ted