{"id":738,"date":"2009-09-06T06:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-09-06T06:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T13:24:28","slug":"bulbs-deer-and-other-critters-dont-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Bulbs deer (and other critters) don&#8217;t like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A helpful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadaappeal.com\/article\/20090905\/HOMEGARDEN\/909049968\/1062\/RSS\">AP article by Dean Fosdick<\/a> reminds me as I prepare my fall bulb order that my garden is plagued by deer, chipmunks, voles and other critters.  So while I may leave the fancy tulips to those not-so-blessed with wildlife, I have no shortage of flower-bulb choices.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobotanic.org\/bulb\/index.php\">Chicago Botanical Garden<\/a> has this helpful list of wildlife resistant bulbs.  Pictures of some of my favorites follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allium<\/li>\n<li>Anemone<\/li>\n<li>Arum italicum<\/li>\n<li>Bulbocodium vernum<\/li>\n<li>Chionodoxa<\/li>\n<li>Colchicum<\/li>\n<li>Dichelostemma<\/li>\n<li>Fritillaria<\/li>\n<li>Galanthus<\/li>\n<li>Geranium tuberosum<\/li>\n<li>Hyacinthoides<\/li>\n<li>Ipheion<\/li>\n<li>Leucojum<\/li>\n<li>Muscari<\/li>\n<li>Nectaroscordum siculum (pictured)<\/li>\n<li>Narcissus<\/li>\n<li>Ornithogalum<\/li>\n<li>Scilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nectaroscordum<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto_monox500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Narcissus of all kinds.  (I&#8217;m partial to these thalia daffs)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/thalia_daffs20090503x500.jpg\" alt=\"thalia daffs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scilla<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/scilla_sibericax500.jpg\" alt=\"Scilla\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colchicum (fall flowering)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/colchicumx500.jpg\" alt=\"Colchicum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leucojum<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/leucojumcu20090503x500.jpg\" alt=\"Leucojum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fritillaria<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/fritt_2009x500.jpg\" alt=\"Fritillaria\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Galanthus<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/snowdrop_open_2009midx500.jpg\" alt=\"Galanthus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allium (with euphorbia)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/euphorbyel_allium_purx500.jpg\" alt=\"allium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chionodoxa<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/scilla_etcx500.jpg\" alt=\"Chionodoxa\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A helpful AP article by Dean Fosdick reminds me as I prepare my fall bulb order that my garden is plagued by deer, chipmunks, voles and other critters. So while I may leave the fancy tulips to those not-so-blessed with wildlife, I have no shortage of flower-bulb choices. The Chicago Botanical Garden has this helpful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bulbs deer (and other critters) don&#8217;t like&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}