I have now confirmed that it's the bunnies doing the damage. Last night when I got home I was super encouraged because one of the roses and a nice huge sprout on it! I watered them some more and said goodnight to them. Then this morning......yep, you guessed it....the sprout was gone, right down to the stalk so there wasn't even any evidence that it had been there.

Terry and I will be going to home depot this weekend to rig something up to fence them in - and I will also be trying the blood meal stuff again. All the decorative fencing sounds nice, but I really think the association would have a problem with that. We need to get something that is relatively invisible.

Do any of you remember me posting a few years ago about a nasty orange cat that kept coming around and pestering T & P through the windows? Well....those people have moved and took the cat with them. Also, we used to have a coyote around now and then that I think is gone because of all the new construction nearby. Thus we have no more bunny predators which results in a bunny population explosion. I hate the thought of the cute bunnies being killed....We have a small Hav-a-hart trap, do you think I could trap them and then take them to one of the nearby forest preserves?