Monday, July 16, 2007

Someone's been eating my hibiscus!


Early this summer I bought two lovely hibiscus bushes, one a yellow, the other a deep pink. As soon as I got them home and put on the back deck, I noticed that the yellow one started missing leaves, and then branches. I have been watching the squirrels cut branches from the maple trees and drag them into their nest boxes for new nesting material, so I figured that they were the ones doing it. Well, they ARE the ones doing it, but they are EATING the hibiscus leaves like spinach. They sit up on the railing of the deck and eat the leaves with wild abandon. Now both plants are denuded and just shells of their formal glory. I was just gonna throw them out, but I figure - ah, what the heck- if they grow new leaves, just more for the squirrels to enjoy. This is a picture of a young squirrel on the railing of my deck- this spring's model. His mom will eat from our fingers and she has within the last week or so had a second litter.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Spidey hates them, but i don't mind them. my goal is to talk mike into lettting me put birdfeeders all over the yeard. the back is full of wild berry bushes, so my yard often looks like it's all birds in the spring and summer. i love to watch the bunnies and in the fall the deer too. i don't really mind any animal stopping by as long as they don't bite me or anyone else and don't get into my trash. sorry about your bushes, but i'm glad they had a good use.

jilly

Anonymous said...

just one more reason. and there could be one or two i like but none related to EVS.

Roger said...

On behalf of my squirrel friends, thank you!

R

UrbanStarGazer said...

Squirrels are evil and should be destroyed. This is just further evidence of their evil nature. Evil, I tell you!!!

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