amaryllids and cats?

Tim Eck teck11@embarqmail.com
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:36:05 PDT
I second the warning about collars and (outdoor) cats.  Years ago, I was
working outside and a very skinny black cat with a flea collar limped up to
me.  One front leg was stuck in the collar (which it had been trying to
remove) and probably had been for over a week.  I cut it off with a pair of
dikes and there were severe sores on leg and neck, but it survived.
My cats do not eat my amaryllids but this last year some white-tailed deer
have become inordinately fond of crinum and hippeastrum and destroyed a lot
of H. papilio hybrids which were without leaves at the time.  They ate the
bulbs down to the base.  Since the crinum bulbs are generally buried, they
mostly just consume the foliage.
My cats generally do little damage other than walking across seedlings but I
had one cat-related incident with a nice C. lavranii x C. hardyi hybrid
blooming for the first time with 6" high foliage and a 30" bloomstalk.  I
was out hand-pollinating and was looking forward to crossing this plant
which was being visited by a hawk moth at the moment.  I caught a motion out
of the corner of my eye as Tertium Quid (my cat) jumped up to get the hawk
moth and decapitated the bloomstalk.  Maybe next year...

Tim Eck
When a philosopher says something that is true, then it is trivial. When he
says something that is not trivial, then it is false.
Gauss


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brian Whyer
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 8:04 AM
> To: Pacific Bulb Society
> Subject: Re: [pbs] amaryllids and cats?
> 
> They do like to make use of dry sand and fine gravel under greenhouse
> benches for a latrine. I have for many years now left a coarse mesh gate
> across my open greenhouses in summer. Keeps pheasants out too here.Never
> lived in a non green environment so can't say about grass but dogs eat it
> often. Avoid "very loose" fitting collars, with bird warning bells. Found
a collar
> with bell and small skeleton caught on a rusty nail once.
> Brian, UK
> 
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