Oh my. We had deer, and elk, and pocket gophers, and California ground squirrels, and snowshoe hares, and wild turkeys. My gardens got eaten every year but some plants survived and thrived. Unfortunately, also we have deer here where I live and rabbits and they have actually been in our back yard when the yard gate is left open. The meadow area is out front. So no point in planting expensive deer food. I did not know this. No wonder I had so few Camas plants. I can keep the back yard safe from deer at least. The fences are 6-foot high and solid so the deer don't jump over. Seems that the mass planting will be Narcissi Tazetta instead. Nothing touched those over on the East side because, of course, they are poisonous. Pity. I was trying to establish a large area of Camas because they are such lovely native plants. Lesley On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM Jane McGary via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Lesley wrote, > > > I planted a pound of camas seed when I lived on the East side of the > > Cascades. I got maybe 50 plants and those took 3 years to flower and > hardly > > spread in the 13 years I was over there. > > If deer were present, that may be why these plants did not flourish. It > does take 3 or 4 years to flower from seed, and some years deer will eat > all the flowering stems. > > Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…