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What is eating my plants?
I have had a large evergreen fern nibbled to nothing along with several young carnations, two ornamental grasses and a young shrub. Also snowdrops have been nibbled and winter acconites. We get pheasants in the garden and I wonder if they are the culprits. I do encourage wildlife and I love to see the pheasants but I am also not wanting my plants eaten. I put out bird food so I guess I encouraged them. I have covered some of plants but can't cover them all.
Is it the pheasants do you think that is eating all of these? We don't get rabbits due to having a couple of cats. The culprits must be having a very early breakfast as I never see them.
Many thanks for any advice.
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There are slugs getting busy in my garden but it certainly could be the pheasants. I have a group of fritilleria (spelling?) and one year found they were being plucked out and half eaten. One day, I was in time to see a whole family of pheasants merrily plucking and chomping. I wasn't pleased. It's very hard to protect plants covering a larger area unless you net the whole thing, and then you can't see the plants.
Thank you Posy. I thought as much. Saw them this morning in the garden although not actually nibbling the plants. They seem to know when I'm watching. I have about half a dozen of the blighters in the garden most days. My fault, of course, as I feed the bird population and the pheasants eat up the fallen seed. Also the squirrels have been eating the nuts. Hey, ho. Never mind. I think come the summer, the pheasants will disappear. Hopefully the plants will survive being eaten. Oh, yes, the slugs have been eating my pansies too. I feel like my garden is a restaurant for the wildlife.
Last edited: 19 February 2018 13:37:34
Hi Lesley. It does seem like every creature in the garden wants to eat it sometimes! Never mind, that's gardening.?