[Rose-list] Re: moles, voles or other critters

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How awful for you.... I'd be getting down right hostile with them
varmits.  Wonder if you could make thick cardboard ''collars'' for
the roses !!!   Guess that's what you do to keep the cutworms off
your broccoli and cabbage plants... 

Were these own root roses ?  
OR have you lost them for good ?

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
Also PNW....Rainier, OR
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> From: denise garoutte 
> We had a beautiful day here (FINALLY) in the PNW and I noticed a
couple of
> my roses were looking puny. The new growth had shriveled and died.
And the
> first one I looked at seem +ACI-loose+ACI- in the ground so I
pulled at it and out
> it came. It looked like a minature beaver had nawed its roots
off-all that
> was left was about an inch of stem underground. In looking at the
rest of
> the row there were 5 more like that in various stages of being
chewed off.
> Under each was a large mole? ? hole. I am trying to save them by
potting
> them up and putting them in the greenhouse for TLC. Any ideas
what's doing
> it and how to stop them?  Thanks for any ideas.

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