Paul wrote, I know definitely that mice eat the flowers of >my hellebores and squirrels eat the crocus bulbs though I have yet to >identify what the rabbits, foxes and badgers eat. Pheasants and pigeons >eat the >leaves of crocuses. Here, rabbits eat the leaves of crocuses in preference to anything else growing around them. The main predators of crocus corms are voles and field mice. Nothing eats hellebore flowers here. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA