The deer ate my tulips!

[bananiem]

I had to divide my tulips from the front of my house last fall. I put them in several different beds. This morning I went out and what was there yesterday is no longer there! Only the tell-tale hoof prints remain...
They still left the ones in front of the house alone. Apparently they aren't as tasty there.

 

[Amy]

We have terrible deer problems here in PA. Every spring when the tulips and hyacynths first poke out of the ground, I put up fences around my flower beds to keep the deer away. Then we have to deal with the bunnies and the groundhogs. Maybe we need a thread on critter-proof plants. About the only ones the critters don't eat are daffodils and butterfly bushes.

 

[sorcerormickey]

Somebody ate my hollyhock. It was about 4 inches tall yesterday and today it is gone. Must have been a bunny.

 

[Glinda]

And somebody has been eating my tulips and hyacinths too!

 

[TinkerPixie]

Lots of nibbling bunnies around here too.....

 

[Mamu]

I would not be surprised if some of this munching isn't a woodchuck. These guys will eat a whole yard in a day. Almost every flower and vegetable that grows.

 

[bananiem]

Now I'm wondering this: If they ate all of the greenery will my tulips ever bloom again? Since they need that greenery for the next year...

 

[amid chaos]

Your bulbs will shoot up some more green soon.

 

[Glinda]

I've had a woodchuck in my yard now for 2 days munching grass so far. He's edging his way toward the house. I'd send out the dog but she's as blind as a bat and prob wouldn't even notice him much less chase him..