Deer love roses. How they can eat those stems is a wonder. Stopping them is difficult but not impossible. Fencing is the best single alternative. Using some sort of fencing or barrier along with other strategies may increase your chances. Along with fencing or by themselves, Deer Repellent Packs provide a fear barrier to keep deer away from your precious roses and other plants. You can find them online at www.DeerRepellentPacks.com Here is a link that might be useful: Keep Deer Away from your Flowers

I say a AND/OR b. Freezing can cause some products to break down completely at the cellular level, and that has nothing to do with separation. I don't know what your deer repellent consists of, but I would certainly follow the directions on the container.

Hello all, I know a family that raises white tail deer for agencies that reintroduce deer where deer use to live but populations have declined or absent all together. Its a 50 acre deer farm. It has 4 sections with internal and external fenced roads running in between each none are accessible by the public. It started when a baby doe's mother was killed by a car and the baby doe was brought to the farm where the owner was ask to keep it a few days but no-one showed back up up to retrieve the baby deer and the family had been bottle feeding the baby deer and it was very healthy and they had fallen in love with the baby deer in-which the family petitioned the local gov for the proper paperwork and permits to keep the baby doe. They were granted the paperwork. Three years went by and she got pregnant. They did not try to jump out (6ft fence) but no one knew how the dad buck got in or out. Then the next year she was pregnant again in her forth year. So it came to be a problem that these new babies grew up and mated, So the owner went to find out if he could buy some deer elsewhere to introduce in his now growing heard of deer and was granted a permit to move some buck he bought from northern VA and they were added to the herd, that night those deer all ended up in his front yard (about 40), the northern deer showed the southern deer that they could jump the 6ft chain link fence, so with deer corn and apples and some 4 wheeler action all were lead back into the enclosure and the next day had a crew come in and added fence to 10ft and this keeps the deer in, none have jumped out. Now to keep them thinned down some go to be introduced in areas where needed. All deer are tagged when young and tranquilized for their shots and recorded. They do not jump the 10ft fence but one buck has made it in the enclosure and joined the herd and has not left or can not jump back out, no one knows where he got in or if someone put him in there but was found in good health untagged, unrecorded and may have actually been there before it was fenced in and/or is the original daddy buck that stayed hidden for years until recorded 7-8 years later when it was very old. Every year or so they buy some other deer from another farm to add to theirs so genetics do not go bad, they also have natural streams and ponds for water. Back to the Moral of the other topics. IMO you need a ten foot fence. I once worked on his farm for 5 years. For knowledge sake you cannot catch, keep deer legally without the proper permits/approvals and even then it took a long time to get approved for the farm ( just to keep them there) The land set aside for the deer are theirs until they are gone no building ect. and they have to be kept up/cared for by a professional vet for or from the local GOV that can legally tranquilize them, record them, move them, tag them, give then shots every year, take samples for testing, count the herd, basically keep track of each deer, all has to be done, documented, fees paid and are the only ones that can transport them or permit anyone else to. They are not for food ever nor to be hunted there and are safe. Do not think a deer can be a pet and approach them, the baby fawn was about a week or so old and was never around any other deer until it was 3yrs and even then sometimes played rough.

The deer don't eat the bark, sounds like your tree got rutted by deer (that usually happens in the autumn 'round about November here). Yes, the injury will closely close up as the callus tissue forms over it over the course of a few growing seasons. Trees do never "heal" (this is an animal ability), plants will grow over the dead tissue. DO NOT WRAP YOUR TREE. Leave it exposed to UV light, drying winds, etc. Before the next autumn you might try to protect the trunk from further damage (they sell various tree guards at better nurseries). Maybe it is just my experience, but the deer seem to target NEW trees. Many new trees that I put into the ground got targeted by the deer for that FIRST year..., Magnolia grandiflora, Gingko biloba, Cedrus atlantica. Every time it happened, I felt sick and was convinced that the tree was a goner. Well, the Magnolia is totally covered over; the Gingko too. Still have to wait another season for the Cedar. If there is dry weather you might supply additional water to the damaged tree (as the injury does temporary impede the flow of water and nutrients up the tree). Another thing you can do to help trees is leave low branches..., less attractive to deer (they prefer something that looks like a telephone poll.)