The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[Luckieman]

A deer broke into my tiny orchard last year and ringbarked a couple of newly planted rare variety trees about a metre from the ground, which has set me back at least a couple more years to replace them. I like deer - they're lovely animals, but I'm not enamoured of some of their habits. I also admire wolves, but only at a distance.

I get confused about your whereabouts 
How do you get deer in your orchard in the UK unless you’re lord emsworth of blandings castle?

Luckieman may answer on their own, but do you think no fruit is grown in the UK? No apple cider? I would think there are still spaces outside the cities for orchards.

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There's a couple of large 'estates' and open commons in the region, inhabited by muntjack and red deer, and they occasionally jump the fence. And my orchard is indeed tiny (a dozen trees plus some developing in containers). I locate apple trees in the wild, try them, have them DNA tested and propagated, so losing a tree sets things back a long time.