One of the nicest things about this townhouse where my partner and I live is that it came with a little sliver of yard in the front and back. After years of apartment living where you could literally go weeks, if you so chose, without touching the grass or some dirt, that was especially nice. We planted a flowerbed full of lilies in the front yard and have put in some azaleas and ferns in the backyard this year.
The first lilies we planted were these gorgeous dark red flowers that looked amazing the entire time they were in bloom. Those were the ones I especially hoped would come up again this year and so far they have... along with a problem I noticed last year.
After those lilies had bloomed, the stalks and leaves stayed healthy and green well into the summer, when it became apparent that something was coming in the night to nom upon the lilies. This year, it appears the night nommer is back, even before anything has bloomed!
I've looked it up online and I really can't tell what it is, even after some reading. Maybe snails or slugs? It doesn't appear to be rabbits or anything like that, because it seems to me that something that big would eat more. Anyway, since CS is -- as has often been proven -- the repository of all human knowledge, I figured someone here would know enough about gardening (and probably enough about lilies by themselves) to tell me what's eating my flowers and how to kill whatever it is.
Here's my garden. As you can see, I have quite a few, and an interest in making sure they thrive. Note the death cactus in the background. It still lives. It still hunts the night...
Here's what the lily plants look like after suffering mystery nommage.
Anyone know what this might be and how to stop it?
The first lilies we planted were these gorgeous dark red flowers that looked amazing the entire time they were in bloom. Those were the ones I especially hoped would come up again this year and so far they have... along with a problem I noticed last year.
After those lilies had bloomed, the stalks and leaves stayed healthy and green well into the summer, when it became apparent that something was coming in the night to nom upon the lilies. This year, it appears the night nommer is back, even before anything has bloomed!
I've looked it up online and I really can't tell what it is, even after some reading. Maybe snails or slugs? It doesn't appear to be rabbits or anything like that, because it seems to me that something that big would eat more. Anyway, since CS is -- as has often been proven -- the repository of all human knowledge, I figured someone here would know enough about gardening (and probably enough about lilies by themselves) to tell me what's eating my flowers and how to kill whatever it is.
Here's my garden. As you can see, I have quite a few, and an interest in making sure they thrive. Note the death cactus in the background. It still lives. It still hunts the night...
Here's what the lily plants look like after suffering mystery nommage.
Anyone know what this might be and how to stop it?
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