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Tulip massacre!
Kathryn-
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What has attacked my tulips? They have been severed near the top of the stem, spookily all at a very similar height. But not all have been chopped. I've attached pictures.
Who is my culprit?
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I've had that happen, but only to one tulip - I put it down to cutworm activity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutworm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I only had ONE tulip a lovely old one popped up in pot and that was cut the same way it's now in an egg cup, I am blaming a magpie that regularly visits nextdoor then pops over my fence.
It happen to a couple earlier in the year and I didn't think much of it, and similarly just put them in a vase. But this was a bit much! I'll check out the cutworm as he sounds like a likely character. Thanks all!
Oh that's nasty!
Kids! Or at least it is kids that are responsible for it in my front garden.
Could be cats.
My neighbour has a cat that decapitates my pot grown tulips every year.
It is a nuisance.
I've seen squirrels snap off flowers and chuck them but yours look suspiciously uniform