Deer-resistant tulips

[sylvia m tou mfen stnt]

Does anyone have any experience as to what tulips
the deer don't go after.

I planted 40 tulips, red, orange, yellow and white
fosternia and the reds are the only ones untouched.
The white have one left (slightly chew on as opposed
to nub-city), forget the yellows, the orange acutally
did OK, majority will survive but the red are
again untouched. Is there other tulip bulbs that
deer do not like? I am assuming the deer did not
like this particular bulb as opposed to the deer
decided he was full and went away.

Thanks

-- sylvia
(syl...@teak.njit.edu or
smt...@hertz.njit.edu)

[Connie Cho]

I understand there is a product called Scoot (made with blood meal ?)
that supposedly works on squirrels. Might on deer as well. Or if you
can find urine from large predators (only half a smiley; there might be
some sort of artificial lure that hunting places carry)

[Acuff John]

sylvia m tou mfen stnt (smt...@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:

: Does anyone have any experience as to what tulips

: the deer don't go after.

: I planted 40 tulips, red, orange, yellow and white
: fosternia and the reds are the only ones untouched.

Unless I'm mistaken, deer are color blind. At least in my
garden, no color is left alone. In fact, when the cute little bambies
wander through they eat the tulips down to the ground before they have a
chance to show their color. Daffodills (sp) are not bothered though.