Gophers!

Geri Cooper via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Thu, 06 May 2021 18:18:11 PDT
What an image!  I might need to get a Malamute.

> On May 6, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Jane McGary via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
> 
> Gophers have a particular taste for Lilium (true lilies) too. One destroyed a whole planting of Oriental lilies at my former garden. Then one of my Malamutes pounced over the tunnel, caught the gopher, and ate it, while I stood by saying "Good dog!"
> 
> jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
> 
> On 5/5/2021 6:39 PM, Robert Parks via pbs wrote:
>> Apparently the local gophers like tangy things. They just ate (the bulbs
>> under) half a dozen big clumps of Oxalis purpurea, as well as all the
>> Oxalis obtusa that I didn't have in pots set in the ground. They also
>> browsed the tops of a California poppy (and at least some of the roots).
>> 
>> At least they haven't cultivated a taste for geophyte aroids.
>> 
>> Anyway, feeding stations set up in tunnels with a banquet of the three
>> flavors of gopher treats I have.
>> 
>> Argh.
>> 
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