All of the flowers that have bloomed have disappeared. The buds that are unopened are still healthy. Upon close inspection, it was apparent that something was eating all of my flowers! Deer regularly cross my yard fairly close to the location of this flower bed, so the logical conclusion was that the deer were responsible even though I was a little confused when my brand new “deer resistant” purple coneflower disappeared overnight.
Chewed Off Daylily
However, when I was taking this photo, the real culprit revealed himself. Or herself.
The Flower Eating Culprit - Groundhog
Now what do I do?
Spawn of Flame 
June 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
so nice of you to feed the chubby little fuzzball 😉
June 28th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Easy dining!
June 28th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I wouldn’t know whether to be mad as hell that my flowers were all being eaten or to laugh out loud at the whole situation, LOL. Very cool picture you captured of the culprit 🙂
June 28th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Mystery solved!
July 7th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
At least your little culprit was fuzzy and cute! I have these big old ugly grasshoppers eating everything in site!!!
July 17th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I love all your flower photos! Too bad about the groundhog. I know this will sound disgusting, but human urine can work really well for deterring pesky animals like this. It worked for the moles we had in our yard. (It is easiest to get the men in your life to help with this rather than doing it yourself though! lol) 😉