Here in St Pete, Fla we have been cool, in the mid-40s at night and 60s days and sunny, but so far no freeze where I live... but just 50 miles north they were down to 18 overnight, and east of Tampa they are worried abt. the strawberries, they run the sprinklers all night if frost is forecast, stay up all night watching the thermometer....... they have the Strawberry Festival coming up in March and have to have tons of berries ! The main plants I worry abt. are my Orchids, I take them down out of the Guava tree and pile them in a wagon and cover them at night...... looks like we're going to have another cold winter here, like last winter, in Jan. we had several weeks of freezing temps at night and everything tender has to be covered with old sheets and blankets at night. sally

I wouldn't worry. Toad lilies (Tricyrtis species) are not really lilies at all but herbaceous perennials with a rhizomatous (spreading) root system. They are typically tough plants adaptable to a range of conditions, but prefer shady conditions and reasonable soil with adequate moisture. Damaging the top growth at this point in the growing season is very recoverable and there's a good chance the plant will bloom just fine this fall. I might want to consider protecting newly planted perennials to avoid further dog damage :-)

I'm just poking this thread to see if that will get it to move down the message list. McTavish already answered me, so this should just die off, but for some reason Gardenweb's been keeping it at the top of the list. Maybe responding will make it move on. :)

I love to see everyone's visitors. Wish we had frogs. The possums would eat them though. Snakes don't worry me. If they aren't poison snakes. The little ones are soft and give delicate brushes with their tongues to see who you are. How can they go so quickly without any legs or feet? We have hummingbirds now. I found a young one on the ground and gave it sugar water and made it a nest out of moss. I put it in a hanging basket in my bottle brush tree. It called all morning for its mother and I kept my eye on it. By afternoon the mother was flying around my nest and by sunset the baby was gone.