On Mar 2, 5:02*pm, rosie > wrote:
> On Mar 1, 1:26 pm, "James Silverton" >
> wrote:
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> > Hello All!
>
> > It seems to have been a tough time this winter for wild life. The acorn
> > crop for the tree-rats was small around here and the deer have just
> > eaten my English ivy nearly to the ground. I'd thought ivy was poisonous
> > but not to horn-rats it seems. They haven't touched the Pachysandra or
> > the Vinca minor (Periwinkle) yet.
>
> > "Mairsy dotes and dosy dotes and little lambsy divy" or something!
>
> > --
>
> > James Silverton
> > Potomac, Maryland
>
> > Email, with obvious alterations:
> > not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>
> WEEELLLLLL, mine have begun munching on my roses, and they are only
> beignning to bloom. I heard they did NOT like daffiidols, that is NOT
> true, also IRIS , mine are chewed down to little nubs. In fairness,it
> is a drought, things are bad here. But I have not found anything they
> will not eat. I have *some bird feeders on my driveway near the house,
> fillwith sunflower seed,tehe other day I looked out ..... there was a
> big buck , calmly munching sun flower seeds.
>
> Rosie

It's tree-rats that don't pester the daffodils.

maxine in ri who's had more tulips, hyacinths and sunflowers dug up
and has gone over to the daffodil family