We do have red and grey squirrels here, but they don't seem to bother the bulbs in the ground or in pots. The pheasants, however, are a ruddy nuisance and often bite all the heads off the snakes head fritillaries.
We get sika deer here @Fairygirl and they can do quite a bit of "pruning". Last year they ate all the flowering buds off my witch-hazel ... and the magnolia.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders Â
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I found that by planting daffodil bulbs above tulips in pots, the squirrels gave up. However. my best success was using decoys, e.g. walnuts and hazelnuts in shells, dotted about, including half submerged beneath the soil. The squirrels seemed to dig them up or find them and then plant them somewhere else. When they ran out of nuts to stash, I would put more out. I also put unshelled nuts out from time to time and it kept them occupied and my tulips came up looking lovely!Â
Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am SpartacusÂ
@b3 for some reason I missed that it is your Thalia bulbs specifically that had been taken. Can you bear to put decoy nuts out for the little imps? I suppose there is an argument that giving them any food could encourage them, but it helped me and they take bird food anyway. I understand there has been talk of giving them contraception rather than culling them. (The grey ones I mean).
Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am SpartacusÂ
Posts
We get sika deer here @Fairygirl and they can do quite a bit of "pruning".
Last year they ate all the flowering buds off my witch-hazel ... and the magnolia.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime