Lobelia Queen Victoria
 

It has now been 'eaten' some 6 inches from bottom twice.It is in the midst of other herbacious plants which have no damage done to them.
Couls this be mice. Is this plant more prone to attack than others. Help please.
James

Lobelia Queen Victoria
 

james mc mullan wrote:
It has now been 'eaten' some 6 inches from bottom twice.It is in the
midst of other herbacious plants which have no damage done to them.
Couls this be mice. Is this plant more prone to attack than others.
Help please.
James

I would not put mice anywhere near the top of the list for this, they are
not generally into leaves, stems etc. Any signs of grubs or other
invertebrate munchers, any droppings (look REALLY carefully they have great
camouflage)? The restriction to the bottom 6in is puzzling. How about a
photo.

D

Lobelia Queen Victoria
 

james mc mullan wrote:

It has now been 'eaten' some 6 inches from bottom twice.It is in the
midst of other herbacious plants which have no damage done to them.
Couls this be mice. Is this plant more prone to attack than others. Help
please.

eating all but the bottom six inches?

groundhog/woodchuck?

here that is what it looks like if a larger
one comes through. they do seem to be selective
some romps. i can have a whole field of newly
sprouted alfalfa or trefoil and instead of
eating that, they'd rather risk their lives
going after the bean sprouts. after a while
they ignored the larger bean plants and went
after the soybean sprouts. before the beans
came up they went after only certain weeds
out in the back strawberry patch.


songbird