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Title: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
Post by: pye 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? ???

Title: Re: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
Post by: Mrs Ava 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!

Title: Re: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
Post by: beejay on February 21, 2007, 14:34:03

I'll just agree with EJ so it must be true!

Title: Re: The Phantom Lobelia Stripper of Old London Town
Post by: saddad on March 01, 2007, 16:47:13

Yep, they had ours as well...
:-[

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