just no words!
why??? is there not enough for them to eat? are they starving that badly?
I am astounded. it almost looks like human vandalism.
I’m so sorry Monk.
Apparently no one was eating it, just either a deer or elk rubbing the velvet off its antlers like the limber pine a few years ago. See Poor Tree and Fresh Air and Sunshine. Andy thought this pine had enough branches sticking out that it wouldn’t happen to it, but nope. It needed fence too. The limber pine survived, but this poor baby won’t.
🙁
I’m so sorry
I kinda know how you must feel.
I had a little cherry tree that I had planted down my hill and last spring I carefully dig it up and moved it to the middle of the backyard along my fence.
I packed it with miracle-pro garden soil and watered it religiously.
I was so happy when little leaves sprouted.
One day I went out there and it was all munched up!
I saw big fresh hoof prints in the ground and then I looked down the hill and standing in my neighbor’s yard was a big deer.
I was so upset. All the trees in my ravine and yet she came up into the yard and killed my tree.
🙁
Sure, it needed a fence, like most of our plants up there. It’s too late for this tree, though — he thought they wouldn’t use it for their antlers because it had so many branches sticking out, and he guessed wrong. 🙁
just no words!
why??? is there not enough for them to eat? are they starving that badly?
I am astounded. it almost looks like human vandalism.
I’m so sorry Monk.
Apparently no one was eating it, just either a deer or elk rubbing the velvet off its antlers like the limber pine a few years ago. See Poor Tree and Fresh Air and Sunshine. Andy thought this pine had enough branches sticking out that it wouldn’t happen to it, but nope. It needed fence too. The limber pine survived, but this poor baby won’t.
🙁
I’m so sorry
I kinda know how you must feel.
I had a little cherry tree that I had planted down my hill and last spring I carefully dig it up and moved it to the middle of the backyard along my fence.
I packed it with miracle-pro garden soil and watered it religiously.
I was so happy when little leaves sprouted.
One day I went out there and it was all munched up!
I saw big fresh hoof prints in the ground and then I looked down the hill and standing in my neighbor’s yard was a big deer.
I was so upset. All the trees in my ravine and yet she came up into the yard and killed my tree.
🙁
Yes, it’s heartbreaking. When Andy came home he said, “Sometimes it’s hard to keep my spirits up.” 🙁
That makes me so sad 🙁
I wonder if stakes pounded into the ground and wrapped with chicken wire would help?
Sure, it needed a fence, like most of our plants up there. It’s too late for this tree, though — he thought they wouldn’t use it for their antlers because it had so many branches sticking out, and he guessed wrong. 🙁
Very sad but, this is how nature works I suppose.
Most of our plants have fences around them to protect them. Andy thought this tree (over six feet tall) didn’t need one. So much for that idea. 🙁