Sounds like a really cool title for a children's book. I'd say you have VOLES, my dear. When you water or it rains, they will tunnel through the soft earth, munching on your plant's roots. Moles and gophers and shrews (and snakes of all kinds), use their nifty tunnels to get around your yard subteranean - like a handy-dandy animal subways. Crickets use them, earthworms, and slugs, too, and lots of other critters. Some good for your garden and some that don't seem to be so good. I've lost tuberose salvias and my favorite tea roses; tulips and petunias, even cactus roots. If its edible, they will eat it! I've tried various things, like tarpaper collars around my roses and concrete or rock barriers, even strips of sheet metal buried around them. The tarpaper worked pretty good until it disentigrated, but eventually, mice burrowed through it and then it rotted to dirt. Flooding does no good, as those tunnels are hundreds of feet long. Those holes will never fill completely up. I've tried it. :) If you have a serious vole (or other rodent) problem, like I do, your yard may be completely undermined with tunnels that links with your neighbor's, and their neighbor's, and so on...hence you may find a flower in your yard (or weed) that you didn't plant or never saw before. Birds can bring carry them in or deposit them in your garden, via their poop, that's true, but so can rodents. Rodents carry seeds back and forth through those tunnels to and from your place. Keeping things in balance with Nature is what works best for me. If we can stop fighting all the elements of nature and work with it, we will get better results and enjoy gardening even more. I sink bottomless buckets in the ground for barriers for my big lilies, around berry bushes and roses, and even some of my garden plants, like my tomatoes, and that works really great. For shallow rooted plants that send out roots horizontally, these don't work so well. Planting daffodils, irises, liriope (Monkey grass), garlic, zinnias and stinky marigolds around the borders of my flower beds and/or around blueberry bushes, roses and strawberry beds, even apple trees, is about the only things I've done that works relatively well for an indefinite period of time, without killing the beneficial micro-organisms in the soil and harming animals like shrews and earthworms and preditory insects and snakes. Garlic really does a great job warding off rodents from my roses and they both mutually benefit from one another. Daffodils, irises, and liriope are poisonous so rodents just don't dig 'em. I think we gardeners and farmers will always have our challenges, but isn't that what makes our successes so awesome! ~ SweetAnnie4u

I would suggest White Footed or Deer Mouse. Possibly Golden Mouse. Understand that the grey mice are the ordinary House Mouse, and should be disposed of, but the brown or reddish mice are native, and some are actually endangered or of special concern. Their babies are gray, thus are easy to confuse with House Mouse. A nice Black Snake would fix your problem.

I use a solid black mousepad - seems to have better results when I am trying to do some "fine" work when I am editing pictures. My mouse was acting really choppy for a while - I had been using a cordless optical mouse, but went back to a corded optical mouse. Go to your CONTROL PANEL and check to see what your MOUSE is set to. Mine was set on the wrong type. When I selected BASIC OPTICAL MOUSE everything started working smoothly again. You can also change some of the settings and speeds at this panel. HTH!

Barb, far as I'm concerned most any sport is worth saving. I'd leave the shoots on the main plant this year to 'beef up' and see what becomes of them next year. I once had a sport on a 'Hyacinthina' that I waited 4 years before I separated it, to make sure it was big enough and had a good enough root system to survive the division trauma. Pieter PS Just did a quick Google search for some pix of 'Midas Mouse' and only pulled up the one in the HL....