Got any pics you can post

Mine are chewed off too... just beheaded. Terrible

Groundhogs around here, too.

Thank you all for the groundhog possibility. Now all my shasta daisies and black-eyed Susans are chewed off also. I have monarda coming up everywhere but they don't even touch it. I'll try to deal with just being frustrated in a continuing effort to better manage my anger. What really got me in the past was when something chewed down all my oriental lilies. I was going to plant more this summer/fall, but now I'm wondering why waste the money. Good luck to you guys too and thank you again.

My issue has been deer and rabbits this year. Between those two, they've taken out so many plants and blooms that it's been really discouraging. Sorry for all of you who are dealing with groundhogs. I've fought them in years past, and they're sure no fun either.

Ruth, I see you're in Zone 5b Michigan. I'm in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor and I'm going to put up a fence tomorrow around my biggest patch of stems to see if I can get any more buds. I guess we should be grateful we don't have bears coming to our bird feeders, as some other states do.

I have had some Echinacea growth chewed the past couple of years, with rabbits the culprit. Never lost flowers though.

If groundhogs are responsible, might be time to investigate an oversize Havahart trap.

Go to the dollar store and pick up a box of moth balls and a bottle of garlic powder. Not GARLIC SALT. Make sure it is powder. Sprinkle the garlic powder on the plant and put the m-balls around the plants.

I fight groundhogs, deer, and rabbits every year. I have to always sprinkle something often if I want to have any plants at all. I have acres of land so there are lots and lots of wildlife.

Almost all of my plants have been ate off, my thoughts grasshoppers, we have several this year.