![]() ![]() ![]() “We’ve worked hard to exile ourselves from nature, yet we end up longing for what we’ve lost: a sense of connectedness…. While deer can be, as Ackerman admits, “terrorists in the garden”, if we wish to garden in the land that has long been theirs we must learn to live with them, and – if not welcome their visits – at least respect them as the “emissaries of the wild” that they are. Like Ackerman, I love watching the deer who visit our yard, because that is the main opportunity I have to observe a large wild mammal, but to keep the deer from eating our prized plants, we – also like Ackerman – have built a fence around the most valuable part of our garden (for us, that’s the vegetable garden, while for Ackerman, it’s her roses) and have used different deer repellents (nothing works perfectly, but for now we’ve settled on bars of soap in mesh bags). Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman is a collection of short, essay-like chapters on gardening, nature, and the nature of gardens.ĭiane Ackerman opens Cultivating Delight by describing the deer that visit her garden, a topic that I relate to very well. ![]()
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