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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Tulips

Bobbi, when I lived in Britain,the public parks had a real problem with
birds eating the blooms.  They cris-crossed black thread on short sticks
across the blooms, and the birds left them alone.  It might work for you?
Joann
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> From: Roberta Diehl <diehlr@INDIANA.EDU>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Tulips
> Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 10:11 AM
>
> Claire et al.:
>
> If planting crocus bulbs in pots prevents chipmunk damage, I wonder what
> is damaging MY crocus! I had assumed it was chipmunks, but it is not the
> bulbs that are eaten but the flowers. They will come up and look charming
> for a day, and that evening or the next a.m. the flowers have been eaten.
> Looks like something trampled and grazed there--torn crocus petals will
be
> littering the ground. A real mess! They come back every year, and every
> year the same thing happens.
>
> It does not happen with any other early spring bulbs, just crocus.
>
> Bobbi Diehl
> Bloomington, IN
> zone 5/6
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