critter-proof flowers?
ellen76
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Flowers and Critters from my Garden
Comments (4)Yes, Melissa, the Brsv nodosa is an orchid. It really likes growing in my camphor tree with filtered sun and plenty of water. I think it has bloomed more in the past year than the previous ten. Anna, the only thing my hummers have been after this year are the trumpet vine. Where do they stick their bills in the ginger to suck nectar?...See MoreWhat flowers are deer proof?
Comments (4)So far they don't eat my Lychnis coronaria, marigolds, Corydalis lutea, hellebores, Caryopteris, Amsonia, Eupatorium 'Chocolate', Epimedium, Irises, Weigelia, Salvia coccinea and S. greggii..... I assume you only mean flowering plants and shrubs. I don't do many annuals so can't comment much on them. The deer left my self-seeded larkspurs alone. They really are hoofed locusts!...See MoreCritter Proof Cages
Comments (3)Thanks. Yep, the birds eat a lot of Tepins and Pequins, but they also spread the seeds along fence lines and in thickets. I've had squirrels steal red Corno di Toro's, so I'm gonna have to figure out something for them too. They learned their lesson with the Ghosts... ;-)...See MoreWhat kind of critter eats flowers?
Comments (10)I have a critter doing the same to my 2 year asparagus plants, stems are cut off 4" to 6" high and only the very tops of the fern are gone leaving most of it on the ground. Thing is the asparagus is in a deer and rabbit proof fence and no foot tracts are ever found, even after a good rain. Now I have a another plot with strawberries, asparagus and garlic with no fence where deer & rabbits graze at will, but the guilty critter is confirmed with foot tracks, but no tracks in this plot either on the severed ferns. So what is it? Tracks confirm Deer top off big and small plants but eat the entire thing to the point it stops. Rabbits do the same thing as high as they can reach but leave larger plants alone. I've been watching this topic for the mystery critter not really knowing what It may be. But now I believe Marie is correct, squirrels. No tracks but they're light, so no smoking gun and only circumstantial evidence, they are now my top suspect. After watched baby squirrels, never the adults, chew off and discard my new oak leaves and then eating just the new stem growth (I think), and after reading the first spring is the hardest on new squirrels looking for food I'm just assuming they are desperate. Never had the problem with baby squirrels because I never had them, a neighbor was killing every one he could for 20 yrs, he stopped and I don't mind them.....I think....See Morehoku1
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