Re: Plant damage

The funniest sight I ever saw at Fernwood was a groundhog feasting on some little edging dahlias. He sat in the bed and reached out with first one front paw ant then the next, breaking off one bloom after another and stuffing them into his mouth. I can imagine the same with the Adiantums. My complaint is the entire D. goldiana frond skeletonized by the Japanese beetles. :-)

Betty in South Bend IN

The way groundhogs 'graze' is to sit on their hind ends and reach out and break off plant parts.


On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:02 PM, Sue Olsen wrote:

Hi Ralph,
Do you have groundhogs? They beheaded much of the fern garden at
Lyndhurst Gardens in NY this spring. They had never been a problem before
this year.
Sue Olsen
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:05:48 -0400 "ralpharcher"
<ralpharcher@bellsouth.net> writes:
I need sugestions for cause as there has been serious damage to two
Adiantum
pedatum at Whitehall.    Something took the whole top off of two
plants
leaving about twelve inches of  stipe sticking up.  Several other
plants of
A. pedatum and A. aleuticum are untouched.  It looks like a deer
broused on
it.  I have never seen anything like it on these ferns in the
roughly twenty
years I have grown them in an area where there were a number of
deer
present.
Ralph in Shelbyville, KY

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