To discourage pesky rabbits, try dusting your plants with plain talcum powder. Since rabbits are great sniffers, powdered red pepper sprinkled around the garden or on targeted plants may keep them out. Irish Spring soap shavings placed in little drawstring bags around the garden will also help to keep rabbits away.
Do rabbits eat mums flowers?
Rabbits should not eat mums. Besides being one of the dear and bunny resistant plants due to their not only strong fragrance but also taste, some varieties or types have poisonous stems and leaves, i.e., those that are used to extract pyrethrins.
What animal eats the tops of mums?
Chrysanthemums are listed by Go Nursery as deer-resistant, though a starving or desperate deer will eat just about any plant.
What eats mum petals?
Chrysanthemums are susceptible to many species of aphids, including the aptly named chrysanthemum aphid. Aphids are sucking insects that feed on plant sap, causing foliage and flower bud damage.
What is eating my chrysanthemum leaves?
Other insects can also attack chrysanthemums, destroying foliage and killing mums after prolonged infestations. These include thrips, four-lined plant bugs, tarnished plant bugs, spittlebugs, stem borers, caterpillars and beetles. Like other pests, they feed on mums and leave spots as they ruin foliage and flowers.
What animals eat mums flowers?
Fortunately, deer seldom bother mums, according to research at Cornell University. However, deer may occasionally munch on mums as they're grazing through an area and squirrels will unintentionally harm them when they go about hidimg acorns in the pots the mums are planted in.
Do squirrels dig up mums?
While squirrels seem to always be skittering around the lawn and climbing trees, I do see them occasionally venture often into container plants - and a potted mum or tub of geraniums would be considered a container plant in this respect. ...7 ago 2007