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WHAT IS MUNCHING MY TETE A TETE?
Samantha30
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Can anyone suggest what is eating the flower heads off my tete a tetes? We moved house last year so they are newly planted and this is their first year of flowering. The stalks and leaves appear undamaged and I cant see any caterpillars. Please help!!
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Snails
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Most likely slugs - they seem to prefer certain daffs over others, as Dove says.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
All of ours got eaten too and the hyacinths much to my annoyance. I'm not sure who did it
Wasn't me Lou - honest...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A pigeon is pulling the heads off my primroses.
Out of 14 pheasants eye narcissus l planted last autumn l have 5 flowers. Snails nibbled the flower buds when they were only a few inches tall but didn't touch any leaves, rotters! Next year I'll be prepared with a few pellets. Sparrows have been at my native primroses for weeks now pulling off the buds, but l don't mind. The wood pigeons have been eating all the food l try and hide around the garden for the blackbirds and robins who aren't keen on feeding from the birdtable. As soon as l pull up my kitchen blind all the birds come and wait for me to replenish their supplies. I swear Mrs Blackbird sits on my shed roof and eyeballs me until l go out and restock. So it's kettle on , top up feeding stations, then a long strong coffee watching the birds and their shenanigans.l just wish they'd all search for and eat slugs too while they were visiting.
Same thing happened to mine. I get a lot of those tiny black slugs nibble mine leaving them a bit ragged, but this year they ate the lot!
Me too
Guess the warm winter let them survive in large numbers