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pye

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The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
« on: February 20, 2007, 18:04:48 »
Last year I bought a lovely purple lobelia for my tiny pond. It settled in happily for a few weeks, then over the course of a few nights a mystery critter carefully stripped all the red skin off the plant, leaving naked white flesh (kind of like deer stripping bark off trees but on a smaller scale).

I got another one and the same thing happened. I moved it into the middle of the pond and it stopped, so whatever it was doesn't like getting wet.

Any ideas what the culprit might be?  ???
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Mrs Ava

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Re: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2007, 14:31:17 »
SLUGS!  Graze mine off if I'm not careful.  Now have them in the pond shallows with no surface touching land.  So far, so good!

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Re: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2007, 14:34:03 »
I'll just agree with EJ so it must be true!

saddad

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Re: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2007, 16:47:13 »
Yep, they had ours as well...
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