View Single Post
  #19   Report Post  
Old 21-02-2018, 06:08 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Muggles[_5_] Muggles[_5_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Jan 2018
Posts: 22
Default I got a surprise with my potted mini-rose

On 2/18/2018 10:36 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/18/2018 10:16 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 2/18/2018 8:40 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/18/2018 3:43 PM, Frank wrote:
On 2/18/2018 4:23 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/18/2018 11:00 AM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
It is a terra cotta colored plastic pot with holes in the bottom,
and
that plastic pot is sitting inside a metal decorative container
that has
no holes.

Geez ... I've purchased similar flowers dozens of times and never
ended
up with a baby snake.Â* Now, I'll have to check every one I want
to buy
for snakes!
Â*Â*Â* to me that would be a bonus.Â* i like snakes.Â*


Â*Â*Â* songbird
Â*Â*Â* Depends on what kind and where . Copperheads in the rose garden
get dead .

No problem with poisonous snakes here but my wife is deathly afraid of
them.
Â*Â* We're not particularly afraid of them , just think there are some
places they don't belong . It was pure chance that I didn't get bit
while cleaning up some leaves and clutter while building the deck .
He/it struck the piece of glass in my hand ... big'un too , over 30" .
That makes 3 in the last 5 years , another was in the wood pile , and
one in some firewood out in the orchard that I was moving to the
woodlot .

So, how do you go about checking leaves and woodpiles for snakes? Do you
have a 10foot pole?

Â* No , you just look carefully before you go sticking your hands in
there . Problem is that copperheads are damn near invisible when lying
still in a pile of leaves . I like to disturb leaves with a rake or
something before putting my hands near . On the occasion I almost got
bit I was picking up broken glass up next to the house , there were some
leaves blown up against the foundation . I saw the snake about the time
he hit the glass . The reason he was there is food . The bird seed
feeders are close by , and ground squirrels and other small critters
like to glean the seed the birds knock out on to the ground .


I think I would move the bird seed feeders away from the house. lol

--
Maggie