Oh deer!

 

The first time we saw a deer in the garden we thought it was quite cute – until we realised it had eaten all the roses in our first attempt at a flower bed. Since then they have become regular visitors - strolling along the back boundary, nibbling the rhodendrons (even though deer supposedly don't like rhodendrons), pausing for a sit down in the middle of lawn as if they are in Richmond Park, or bounding across the lawn on the way to create mayhem somewhere else.

If we're going to have any flowers we need to keep them out. So the first step is deer fencing ... not around the whole garden because we don't want to live in a deer fortress, but to hopefully to keep the back garden deer-free.