I have a border with lovingly grown roses down at the cottage/gite. Unfortunately this year for the first time the deer have found them and are nibbling off all the new growth and flower buds. 
Anyone any suggestions please as to how I can repel them? Unfortunately they can come straight across the fields and we are 100m further up the hill, so although I work down there, for much of the time they have the run of the place.
My sister and brother-in-law back in the UK have the same problem with deer and they were told to place human hair (which they got from the local hairdresser) around the shrubs. It worked for them!
The right sonic repellers can work but only if they are set to the correct frequency for deer. The cheap, widely available ones donāt work on anything in my experienceā¦
Thanks @Rachel05 and @AngelaR Iād read about human hair - Iāll have to pluck up courage to go into my hairdressers (my hairās not long enough). Iāll try the local garden centre for deer repellent - sound and smell. Iāve also wondered about rigging up some solar movement lights. Wind chimes is another suggestion, as is strong smelling soap.
Hereās hoping!
I hope at least oneof those works for you @SuePJ 
Solar movement lights perhaps with the reflective poles they have on sides of roads to stop deer crossing and getting squashed?
Apparently they donāt like the smell of lavender. Would it be suitable to underplant your roses with that?
Solar movement sensor light has worked for us - our roses have leaves this year 
They just our lights to find the Lilies - but only the flower buds.
I donāt think our deer got that memo. 
One of the roses thatās been eaten has a large lavender at its base. No way they could have got at the rose without touching the lavender.
Iāve put up 2 motion sensors, two childās windmills - large plastic ones with citronella candle rubbed over the sails, two of the roses have got the tiny LED wire lights threaded through them with the setting set to flash. There are two small windchimes at nose height hanging from a couple of bushes and more bits of citronella candle scattered around.
Iāve decided I canāt face having other peopleās hair in my garden - feels too creepy. But I will give Bertie a good comb and brush - apparently dog hair is supposed to deter.
Hopefully some / all of this works.
Went down in the dark to check - it looked like Christmas!
Fairy lights arenāt just for Christmas you know 
We have a string of white ones permanently in our walnut tree by the terrace, they are so pretty 
Iām such a misery guts. Outdoor lights at night disturb insects so we minimise the use of them.
I agree Jane. I used the lights on our swimming pool only once when I realised how many moths were flying into them and in fact I like swimming in the dark on hot evenings - flashes of lightning along the horizon.
But this is an emergency - I cannot have deer eating all my lovely rose bushes in front of the gite!
The motion sensor lights unfortunately were on all the time - it was windy last night.
Motion sensors do at least go off some times.
We have some glow worms in our grass and I feel so sorry for them twinkling away trying to find a mate when next doorās fairy lights perturb all the females. Sorry ToryRoo but do limit your prettiness to when you are actually looking at them.
must confess, I had been thinking about our glow worms as I read this threadā¦
I used to go looking for ānightlife thingiesā, waving a torch around (daft bat that I am) until I read somewhere that this was not a good thing to doā¦ often harmful.
Now I just stand still in the blackness and let the glow worms make their appearance ā¦ magical.
However, I donāt have deer destroying rosesā¦ letās hope a suitable alternative deterrent can be found.
Electric fence around the roses?
Would noise of some sort work in deterring the deer - like a bird scarer or having the radio on or would they be waiting for the next episode of The Archers -LOL
are the deer coming onto your land to munch the rosesā¦ or getting close enough to nibble, while staying āon tāother sideā of the fence.
Weāre talking 2 hectares and no fence. Giraffes maybe, but not deer.
Interestingly, my defences down at the cottage may be working too well! 7am this morning a very pretty Roe deer was on our main lawn in front of the house, where I have even more roses!
These are some of the roses I am trying to protect. I have over a hundred bushes and some are daughters and granddaughters of the ones I originally planted.
I think its a bit of a thorny problem
