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My hydrangeas are being eaten!

7xdgxh67f24dUSYnIa7xdgxh67f24dUSYnIa Posts: 1
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Something is eating the shoots and leaves of two young hydrangea plants I have bought. It’s not slugs or snails or anything similar. We don’t have deer. The other morning I found the pot pushed over (pot about 12 inches high).
Badger? Hedgehog? Cats? 

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Any chance you could post a photo of the damage please?  The pot being pushed over might not be connected to the leaf damage. 
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    How do you know it's not slugs? All sorts of things will knock the pot over, badgers, foxes, cats.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Ours have been hit very badly with the last frosts. The leaves are burnt out.
    Could this be what has happened to yours?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It won't be hedgehogs, either pushing over or eating, unless it's a tiny pot and a very large hedgehog.  :)
    Any of the animals mentioned could knock it over, but very few of those, probably none, would eat them. Slugs/snails would probably have a go if they were lying around though.

    It's very odd if woody shoots are being eaten though. Rabbits are more likely than any of the others if that's the case.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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