ATH
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- Findlay, Ohio
Aspens...are they established enough to root sprout? Maybe offer to clean off the dead and fertilize???
Deer ate the trees
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Matias
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- Butte County
I was wondering about that
data farm 26
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- 7th level
That's a great idea.
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
Around here the deer prefer to rub their antlers on small Eastern Red Cedars and Magnolias. I think they like the smell.
It’s a lesson for everyone involved. Now you really know, and so do they. If the client is reasonable, I would say maybe just honor “some” sort of portion of them out of good faith. If nobody knew, it isn’t negligence, it’s a learning moment.
I recommend protective measures or deterrence of some sort for everything I plant in my area. The deer are a real problem in a landscape and in the wild as well. They are really changing the species diversity by heavily browsing on saplings in the wooded areas around here. Oaks are in trouble. On a larger, more advanced scale, they are steering much of the Adirondacks into a sick Beech monoculture.
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
I don’t think you are responsible for critter damage, but if you want to make a good impression on your clients, you could offer to cover half the cost of a new tree and then put some kind of trunk guard on them.
Treetopflyer
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I have nothing of value to add to this thread that’s hasn’t been said
but when you said this I remembered sleeping in my hammock out in your yard and feeling like the coyotes that I herd where coming in to eat me ! I didnt sleep much that night lol
