OT: Flower bulbs keep getting dug up
Posted By: sm on 2006-06-18
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I live in a bad neighborhood on a fairly high-traffic corner. There is a little patch of ground outside my fence that I have been trying since spring to plant bulbs there, but they keep disappearing. First I tried tulips. They did start to bloom, and one morning they were all pulled out and scattered about the area. We do have a lot of squirrels around, so I blamed it on them not knowing at the time I planted that squirrels love tulip bulbs.
So I gave up on the tulips and tried something else I found packaged as Flowers for Dummies. I don't even know what these are called. They are a mixture of purple and white kind of weedy-looking flowers on the package. They didn't even start to bloom yet, and I go out there today and they are all pulled up.
Does anyone have any idea if it would be the local kids doing this or stray cats or dogs or what? I'm really getting a complex about this as this is my 3rd crop of bulbs! At any rate, I have given up on the flower bulbs and think now I will try to spread wildflower seeds and see if anything grows.
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