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Protect Your Landscape Before Deer and Rabbits Destroy It

Professional Organic Treatment You Can Trust

Professional protection for flowers, shrubs, trees, vegetable gardens, fruit plants, and valuable landscaping throughout Michigan’s changing seasons.


Our Protect Your Landscape Service Plans combine professional-grade organic treatments, customized application strategies, and regularly scheduled service to help discourage deer and rabbit browsing before costly damage occurs.

Organic • Low Odor • Non-Staining • Safe for People, Pets, and Edible Gardens.

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Contact us today to schedule your free estimate and find out how we can help you keep your landscape looking great.

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Deer and Rabbit Damage Can Become Expensive Quickly

Deer & rabbits may look harmless, but the damage they cause can be extensive, costly, & permanent.

Protecting your landscape before severe browsing occurs is far less expensive than replacing established shrubs, mature trees, gardens, and professionally installed landscaping.


Michigan’s Browsing Seasons

Wildlife feeding habits change throughout the year, which is why consistent protection is important.


Spring
As landscapes come back to life, deer and rabbits are attracted to fresh shoots, flower buds, hostas, emerging perennials, vegetable gardens, fruit plants, and newly installed landscaping. Tender new growth is especially vulnerable.


Summer
Browsing continues throughout the growing season. Annual flowers, vegetables, ornamental plants, young shrubs, and fresh growth remain attractive, particularly during hot or dry periods when natural food sources become limited.


Fall
As native food sources begin disappearing, browsing pressure often increases. Deer continue feeding on shrubs, ornamental plants, and trees while also rubbing antlers on young tree trunks during the rut, causing bark damage that can permanently affect tree health.


Winter
Winter often brings the most costly landscape damage. Deer commonly browse arborvitae, yews, burning bush, and many evergreen varieties while food is scarce. Rabbits frequently chew bark around the base of young trees and shrubs, potentially girdling the trunk and causing permanent injury or death.

Extensive Deer Damage

Protect Your Landscape Before More Damage Occurs

Keep Your Vegetable Garden & Fruit Trees Protected

Professional Deer & Rabbit Protection for Gardens, Orchards, Crops & Young Trees

Whether you’re protecting a backyard vegetable garden, an orchard, or crops on a farm, deer and rabbits can destroy months of work in just a few nights. Tender vegetables, young fruit trees, vines, new growth, flowers and low-hanging branches are especially vulnerable—and repeated browsing can reduce harvests, stunt growth and cause lasting damage to valuable plants and trees.


Our professional deer and rabbit protection is designed to discourage repeat browsing before the damage adds up. Customized treatment plans target the areas wildlife is actively using, including common travel routes and high-pressure feeding areas, to provide ongoing protection throughout the growing season and into winter—when food becomes scarce and young trees, bark and woody growth can face even greater pressure.


Protect the investment you’ve already made in your garden, orchard or growing operation—and keep the harvest for yourself, not the wildlife.

Protect Your Flowers, Shrubs & Landscaping

Stop Deer & Rabbits Before They Ruin the Plants You Paid For

 Deer and rabbits can turn healthy flower beds and carefully maintained landscaping into damaged, stripped plants almost overnight. Hydrangeas, hostas, roses, perennials, annuals, ornamental shrubs and fresh new growth are especially vulnerable—and once wildlife discovers an easy food source, it often returns again and again.


Our professional protection targets the plants and areas experiencing the greatest browsing pressure while also treating common travel routes wildlife uses to enter your landscape. Scheduled applications help discourage repeat browsing throughout the season before damaged plants become stressed, miss their bloom, require replacement, or lose years of growth.


Protect the landscaping you’ve already invested in instead of waiting to see what disappears next.

Protect Your Trees From Fall & Winter Wildlife Damage

Buck Rubbing, Bark Chewing & Winter Browsing Can Permanently Damage Trees

Fall and winter bring some of the most destructive wildlife pressure trees face. During fall, bucks rub their antlers against trunks and branches, stripping and shredding bark and potentially causing severe damage to established landscape trees and especially younger trees. As food becomes scarce, deer continue browsing buds, twigs and woody growth while rabbits can chew bark around the lower trunk—damage that can weaken, disfigure, girdle or even kill a valuable tree. 


Our seasonal deer and rabbit protection targets vulnerable trees and high-pressure areas before the damage occurs. Protect trees that took years—and hundreds or thousands of dollars—to establish before one fall or winter leaves permanent damage.

Why Our Service Works

Professional Protection That Encourages Wildlife to Browse Elsewhere

Professional-Grade Protection

Our program is built around premium professional-grade organic repellents and a consistent application strategy. The products we use are the most effective treatments on the professional market delivering exceptional protection. This protection is organic, low odor, non-staining, and safe for people, pets, wildlife, and edible gardens.


Dual-Action Defense

Each application provides two barriers of protection by working through both scent and taste. Rather than harming wildlife, the treatment simply encourages deer and rabbits to browse elsewhere.


Customized Protection

Every property is different. Whether you’d like to protect a single garden bed, newly planted trees, ornamental shrubs, fruit trees, vegetable gardens, or your entire landscape, we’ll customize a treatment plan based on your property’s needs and browsing pressure.


Scheduled Treatments

Consistent treatments are essential to protecting the landscapes and gardens you love. Your property will be placed on our monthly treatment schedule to maintain dependable protection. Application frequency may be adjusted based on wildlife pressure, weather conditions, and your property’s individual needs. If you notice new browsing between scheduled visits, simply contact us and we will return sooner to reinforce your protection.

Discover Our Protection Plans Below

Choose Your Coverage Plan

Protect Your Landscape - Standard Protection

Protect Your Landscape - Standard Protection

Protect Your Landscape - Standard Protection

Professional spray treatments are applied during scheduled visits approximately three weeks apart. Each application creates a protective scent-and-taste barrier across the plants and landscape areas included in your plan. Service begins when daytime high temperatures consistently reach 35°F or above, typically in early spring, and continues until daytime highs consistently fall below 35°F, typically in early winter.

Protect Your Landscape - Double Protection

Protect Your Landscape - Standard Protection

Protect Your Landscape - Standard Protection

Double Protection combines our professional spray barrier with strategically placed granular protection. The spray treatment protects plants and landscape areas through scent and taste, while the granular treatment creates an additional layer of protection around vulnerable plants, landscape beds, wildlife travel routes, and common property entry points.  This dual approach helps discourage deer and rabbits before they reach the plants being protected and continues working as they move throughout the treated areas. 


Protect Your Landscape Winter Defense

Protect Your Landscape Winter Defense

Protect Your Landscape Winter Defense

For homeowners who want year-round protection, we offer Protect Your Landscape Winter Defense. In addition to our growing-season applications, this program includes specialized winter granular treatments designed to help protect your landscape throughout the colder months. During winter, when natural food sources become scarce, deer and rabbits often turn to valuable landscape plants, including arborvitae, yews, boxwoods, hollies, burning bush, fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, and other woody ornamentals. Winter Defense helps extend your property’s protection beyond the traditional browsing season, providing continuous defense against winter browsing when your landscape can be most vulnerable.

Why We May Also Treat the Lawn

Protect Your Landscape Winter Defense

Protect Your Landscape Winter Defense

We often recommend treating portions of the lawn surrounding landscape beds and garden areas. Treating these travel paths provides an additional layer of protection and helps discourage wildlife from entering. Many homeowners choose to have their entire lawn treated to maximize protection from deer and rabbit entering their property and wanting to browse for a long time. 


While deer generally do not graze on healthy turfgrass, deer are attracted to broadleaf weeds commonly found in lawns, including clover and dandelions. For that reason, we  recommend pairing your Protect My Landscape Service Plan with our Healthy Lawn Fertilization Program. A thick, healthy lawn with fewer broadleaf weeds removes another attractive food source and enhances your overall landscape protection strategy.

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Complete our quick request form. Our team will reach out to schedule your Free Property Protection Evaluation and recommend a customized protection plan designed specifically for your property.

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Start the season with a clean, healthy property. We remove leaves, sticks, and winter debris that can smother turf, damage landscapes, and create an ideal environment for pests and disease. Boost curb appeal, promote healthier lawns and plants, and prepare your property for the season ahead.

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