I vote for the fierce fuzzy-tailed tree rat! Havent had problems with my brugs but when I was trying to grow orchids (sad and expensive experience)they seemed to delight in finding a scape just emerging and nipping it off!
Will

Last year, I had chipmonks pull my baby petunias right out of the ground and chew them up.They left the roots lay. They did it over and over, til I finally saw one of them in action and waged war..Lets not talk about going to war with those adorable little critters... :0(
Dee

May be a squirrel? they do this with some flowers and veggy.
Sometimes they dig next to the roots of my potted plants and if I do not see it right away the plants die especially if they are young.
Pat

Chipmunks dug up all my seeds one year. I had 3 flats of sunflowers, veggies & other flowers & figure the sunflowers attracted them & they dug up everything looking for the seeds. They didn't just dig them up though, they bit the stem in half on all the seedlings. This year, they climbed up & ate the apples out of the tree right before they were ripe. Something also took a bite out of almost all the tomatoes (just the big ones, not the cherry) as they were getting ripe.

Sounds like yours might be a chippy or a squirrel if it was able to climb a 6' fence.

Linda

I counted all of my Cows and they were home last night!!!LMAO..
Sorry for your "critter buffet!!!"

Kylie

Oh Kylie, how funny!!!!!
I also have a bunch of birds trying to nest in my hanging plants on the patio! What a pain! Poop all over my brick floor and patio furniture. I finally hung aluminum strips from thin strings all around, and it seems to scare them away. - What I would give if I had a tree, and grass below, to watch the birds and their nests !!

Thank you all for your input. I'll be standing on guard outside tonight, watching for chipmunks, squirrels and (oh no!) tree rats. And I'll shoot them, if I see them.
With my camera, of course. What did YOU think?

Ingrid.

I watched an unsuspecting rabbit carefully eat every impatiens flower off of a row of plants- it was a treat to see! (At my boss's house!)
kasha77

Ingrid, it could also be raccoons. I have had lots of digging going on in the backyard where some pots get turned over so am suspecting raccoons. BTW, tree rats are what some call squirrels; roof rats on the other hand are plain old nasty rats!

sorry Ingrid, we had to run around a lot and do the shopping. Then the garage door company did not accept me wanting to have family time and now they are coming tomorrow morning to install the doors and put in new frames first.

Here is the picture : {{gwi:578680}}From haase's photos

Alexander listened to his silly grandpa and thought he can eat marigolds he picked in the garden
{{gwi:578683}}From Pictures for GW friends

My guess is, it was Alexander roflmao

Lucy

I have a cat that likes to groom plants in a very destructive way.

Lucy, thanks for posting the picture.
If it was Alexander.... then where was I?? It is a good thing that I missed him, because I would have kept him, and never let him go again. What a sweetheart!!

I'm glad that you are getting your garage doors tomorrow, well before the holidays, and get it over and done with.

Hugs, Ingrid.

WWW tell me about it. Precious just love the green room and thanks to her I can not even spread out the pretty plants that were growing outside during the summer, throughout the house this year :-(

Ingrid he and Precious get along. It was love at first sight.
On one side they are both the most lovable souls...then you turn around and they get into trouble lol

I hope the rest of your beautiful mums are being left alone.
You know how you are suppose to trim them back so they bloom again...just see it that way..eventhough the culprit did it while the first blooms were still fresh.

Next time I post a picture for you, I hope it will be one that makes you HAPPY :-)

Lucy

Did you ever figure out what ate your mums? There's something that ate chunks out of my lotus tubers again this year. They don't touch the water lily tubers, just the lotus. I know it's not the fish and am pretty sure it's raccoons. Maybe they pull them up trying to catch fish/frogs and eat them instead or maybe in addition to?

Ingrid
I have rabbits that do that exact thing to mums (and gerberas, and anything else at rabbit height) usually don't eat the whole bloom, just 'taste' them alot! I don't grow gerbera daisy any more for just this reason.

They can squeeze under or through almost any fence. Human hair or mothballs are good deterants (of course mothballs keep EVERYONE away, yuk)

frances

Lucy, cute GS! Yep, don't tell a boy that something is edible because they will, LOL!

My dog ate my lotus tubers. Thought they were very tasty. She liked the taste of the dahlias as well but didn't bother my ornamental sweet potatoes, lol.