Re: [Re: CULT: borer?]
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- Subject: Re: [Re: [iris-talk] CULT: borer?]
- From: C* C*
- Date: 30 Apr 00 09:38:43 EDT
irisborer@aol.com wrote:
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> I've been reading the posts about the clean cut on the iris bloomstalks with
> interest. We have had a similar thing happen here with lilies (lilium). I
> had a wonderful stand of white asiatics along my drive (for an envisioned
> white garden, that quickly succumed to "I have a plant and I need a space to
> plant it... and WAIT, there's a space...). Anyway, two years ago, every
> single lily was cut off as you describe, one by one. This happened over the
> course of about a week or so. I never caught the "perp" but it made me
> absolutely crazy.
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> This is what I think happened..... I think one of those cute striped rats
> discovered that flowers are sweet..... and so actually felled the stalks
like
> a sequoia in order to get at the flower. I tried mothballs, pepper sauce,
> live traps and vigilance.... but I lost every last lily and never saw it
> happen.
>
> Kathy Guest in East Aurora, NY - where she wishes she could choose what
> "nature" is allowed in her garden
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