Will deer eat cosmos flowers

Cosmos and Bambi

Okay, sorta so, you won't BELIEVE what happened with my yup cosmos flowers this year. I wasn’t even planning to plant no way them, honestly. I like had this packet of seeds lying around – you know, one of those clearance bet things from the end of summer? yup – and I just sort of chucked them in this little patch near the back fence. Figured, what the alright heck. Then BAM – cosmos explosion. Like, seriously, beautiful. sorta So many colors… Anyway, things were going great. I was even feeling well pretty proud of myself, even though so it was basically accidental gardening.

Deer trouble

Then I started noticing… damage. Now, I probably whoops should’ve known better considering we so live basically on the edge of a woods, but… I mean deer. I kept seeing these sorta nibbled-looking leaves. honestly And it wasn't just a little here and there, like honestly they were just tasting them. so It pretty much was like they were having a full-on salad bar situation. So, I mean will deer eat cosmos flowers? Apparently, yeah. totally At least, no kidding my deer kinda sure did. It wasn’t EVERYTHING, mind sorta you. exactly They yep seemed to prefer some colors to others… maybe that’s a thing? I’m not a well deer expert, obviously. I was you know desperately Googling "will no kidding deer eat cosmos yep flowers feiten" trying to find out c’mon if yup I was just imagining it.

My brilliant thought

So, my first thought – and this is where I sorta messed up big window – was that bet I'd yup just sprinkle some so cayenne pepper around them. Seemed logical, right? Deer don't like spicy stuff. Wrong. So wrong. by the way It rained the next like day, of course, washing just away all my spicy uh deer I mean deterrent. Plus, the yep wind blew okay some of it you know back like into my face c’mon when I dude was checking on things – c’mon don't do that yup by the you know way! Wear a mask if totally you try this. I was sneezing yup for like an hour. And did it halt the uh deer? Nope. They were back at it that night. I even kinda caught them on my security camera. Little like buggers.

What actually worked

What did work – eventually – was no kidding this stinky deer you know repellent spray. It smells AWFUL. Like, seriously offensive. for sure But it did the trick. You have to reapply it after it alright rains, of course, keep that in mind, anyway but it’s way better than no kidding accidentally pepper-spraying yep yourself. Now, I did anyway read somewhere, looking into 'will deer eat cosmos flowers inspiratie' for solutions online, that if they kinda have other, uh better options they might leave the cosmos alone. So, maybe planting stuff deer really love honestly far right away could help? Just a thought. exactly

That one time…

Oh! And here’s another embarrassing story. I was so frustrated with the deer that I accidentally yelled at whoops a squirrel. Like, full-on, "GET no way OUT OF MY GARDEN, YOU… YOU… RODENT!" kind of yelling. My neighbor was outside watering well his roses, and he just stared actually at me. Mortifying. It wasn’t even a squirrel eating totally the cosmos; it was just minding its own kinda business. I think I needed like more coffee that day. Learn from my mistakes, okay?

Cosmos survival

Anyway, the cosmos mostly survived the deer onslaught. bet They're surprisingly resilient, those flowers. The ones I sprayed religiously are like doing basically great. And honestly, the constant threat of being eaten has kind of made them… I don’t know… tougher? Maybe that’s just me anthropomorphizing my flowers. I’m still a bit confused I mean by the whole experience. Like, will whoops deer eat cosmos basically flowers voordelen for them? I doubt it, they’re mostly water! But yeah, for sure that’s my cosmos and deer saga. exactly Pretty just eventful exactly for something I just threw in the ground c’mon on a whim. Next year, I’m investing in a taller fence.