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Beheaded Tulips

Fluffy CloudFluffy Cloud Posts: 200
in Problem solving

Can anyone tell me what's eating my TULIPS? Something is eating the top of the tulip heads?

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  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Squirrels.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    If the heads are gone and not just broken off (woodpigeons do that to mine), it's possibly  squirrels unless you are rural in which case deer are a good bet.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Fluffy CloudFluffy Cloud Posts: 200

    Thanks Dave Morgan and BobTheGardener. I don't think its squirrels or deer. It's likely due to woodpigeons. I've seen quite a few of the pigeons in the garden!! Thanks for your help.

  • Wild VioletWild Violet Posts: 17

    My tulips get chopped every year.  I live in the Highlands and discovered a roe deer was squeezing through my hedge.  Why do i bother even trying....

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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410

    Are you sure you don't have visiting deer Fluffy Cloud?  I think tulips are their absolute favouriteimage. They very neatly take the flower buds off - as if they were eating a lollipopimage.  I grow all mine in a fenced off area now.

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