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Salvia, geraniums and New Guinea impatiens are blooming in my little stone wall garden bed, but unfortunately now and then I find a hole.
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See the empty space on the left? Thank you Mr. Woodchuck, please tip your server. 😡
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Happily my strawberry shortcake foxglove is on the list of woodchuck avoided plants.
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It’s also rhododendron time.
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And this year, they’re glorious.
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Every season I tell myself to cut them back, then they give me a riotous bloom and I cave.
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This year I planted three tick weed (coreopsis) behind the marigolds. Sadly, they must have been on the ‘favorite woodchuck snack’ list because one morning I looked out and they were munched down to nubs. Solution?
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Giant headed yellow marigolds. They’re not my favorite flower, but they’re not a woodchuck’s either … so that’s a win.
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As is this pink cosmos. Such a happy flower. I smile just looking at them.
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The rhododendrons are beautiful. Ours are done, but they were spectacular this year.
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I’m actually surprised things are blooming well, it’s been horribly dry.
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I can look at blooms all day every day!!!
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I just wished they lasted longer…
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The cosmos are beautiful! As are the rhodies; I miss them (they’re everywhere in my home town of Seattle) and look forward to possibly having them at my new home in VT.
As for your ongoing battle of wills with Mr (and Mrs?) Woodchuck, I’m not betting on them. But hey, at least their babies are cute!
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Vermont should be full of rhodies as well.
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I’m so jealous of your garden and obvious green thumb.
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Green-ish. You realize I don’t photograph the dead things…
😉
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I love your garden! Beautiful flowers. I only have magnolias, agapanthus and lavender in my garden. The soil is too dry.
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We live by the river and have a lot of underlying clay. It’s a constant battle to fertilize properly.
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So pretty! I have a knack for killing plants, so I don’t have much going except a Russian sage in my front yard. I used to have some purple coneflowers in the back yard that I had gotten from my mom, but they didn’t come up last year. I don’t know why. 😦
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That’s happened to me with coneflower as well. But woodchucks love them, so ….
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Beautiful gardens. Maybe you could build a little woodchuck trail garden ‘kitchen’. As s/he walks along munching, s/he can poop and drop seeds whilst also safely fertilising eutrophication-free, leaving you with a surprise garden melange in the future?
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Encouraging woodchuck munching is a slippery slope. Once started they’ll eat everything in sight.
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I must meet one, one day.
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Adorable, until they get hungry.
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Your place is so beautiful and perfect!
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When I photograph it, yes it is.
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😂🥰
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Careful with that salvia… it’s an hallucinogen…
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Good thing Lord Dudley is confined to the house ….
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Your yard is beautiful!
Thanks for sharing more about the woodchuck! Lol
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Thank you, it’s a lot of work but we love it. More woodchucks to come…
😉
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I hope they leave your flowers alone! 😆🤣
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That’s always the battle.
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The garden looks lovely. Thanks
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It has its moments.
❣️
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I love cosmos and honestly, looking at all your flowers makes me smile. Damn the wood chuck, luckily he has a few favorites that you can avoid giving him.
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It’s a constant battle against munchers here. Woodchucks, deer etc. I love our wildlife, but damn.
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