Yikes!!!? are you sure this damage is due to squirrels? if so I'd better get
some squirrel pellets ready like the ones I got for cats.

I've long suspected that the squirrels are the culprits that take the odd
bud now and then from some of my roses, but I have never seen them eat any
foliage of any kind, I do have a few succulent leaved plants.

I get squirrels in the garden and they can make a mess of things, but
usually they are burying beechnuts, acorns etc, then dig them back up again.
they do take up small bulbs that are not planted deep and I have often found
bulbs growing where I know I didn't plant originally.

I have recently planted up some large pots and planters with bulbs for the
spring.these are mixed bulbs with daff's, tulips, snowdrops and crocus. and
noticed that the squirrels had been digging in them and leaving spilled
soil/compost around the base. At first I thought they might have taken the
small bulbs (as they were only a couple of inches below the surface but on
inspection none of the smaller bulbs had been taken but I did find a couple
of acorns and some peanuts in there.

I have secured some wire mesh over the pots now, at least until the bulbs
appear at least this as stopped them from making a mess.

Maybe if you hang a bird feeder with nuts in then this will keep them
occupied, in the first instance figuring out how to get to the nuts, then in
the second instance satisfying there need for food.

Jeff

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Lyn wrote,

I live in London but recently I have been getting a lot of squirrels
in my garden. They are very cute and I love to watch them, but I've
now found that they are ruining my garden!

I recently built a raised bed as a memorial to a friend who died in
July and planted some plants in his memory, plants with names which
meant something to us but the squirrels have destroyed a lot of the
plants, especially a climbing rose called Schoolgirl. They keep
digging up the plants, and the ones they don't dig up they seem to
have sucked all the life out of them..leaving leaves dry and withered
with a lot of evenly sized holes in them.(Sempervivums..I guess they
like the fleshy leaves.) I've not seen anything like it before.

Does anyone know how I can stop the squirrels from getting into the
bed? Is there anything I can put down, which will not harm them? Is
there something they don't like which will deter them? I don't want to
use netting of any kind so as to spoil the look of the bed.

Thanks for your anticipated replies.

Lyn