So much for crocuses

I finally emerged from the house yesterday after nearly a week in bed with the flu, and I was greeted by the sight of every one of my crocuses uprooted, with the corms eaten off. (Corms are the bottom bit of crocuses, and look like tiny bulbs.) I’m not sure if it was rats or squirrels, though I consider a squirrel to be only slightly less of a pest than a rat. Now I see why the previous owner planted a sea of hyacinths (they’re even coming up in the middle of the lawn), which rodents only rarely eat. I wonder if being rat or squirrel food is the fate of all those Ice Stick and Queen of the Night tulips I planted last fall…

About these ads