Re: Who's Been Eating my Iris?



On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Steven Cangemi wrote:

> We do have voles here. I have never had a problem, but I know people who
> have. However, do voles have scuba gear? The iris are in an area with a
> very high water table. It's true that the ones that disappeared were in a
> place that the water level was actually under the mud, but not by very
> much. I didn't think burrowing things like voles (and moles) wanted to have
> anything to do with
> water, and they are too small to sit on the bridge and reach the plants.

Muskrats, I bet!! They wiped out my Siberian iris and Iris pseudocorus 
just about completely at my old house which was next to a large pond...
To protect plants from them you pretty much have to fence them in and 
hope that they won't tunnel in under the fencing...

Debbie
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