Went out to check over some backyard plants this evening after not being out in that corner for a couple of days, and my pride of Barbados is missing flowers with most stalks bent over (but not snapped). My Gregg’s all around is quite trampled and sad looking too. At first I thought it was just that they got too dry, but then I found a pile of dissected PoB seed pods behind the plant. Finally, noticed a board in our very ancient fence had been knocked down.
Do deer eat PoB seeds? I always heard they were poisonous and I also don’t think deer could peel the pods apart and pile them up like that. Raccoons?? A nefarious seed stealer out to make $$ hawking PoB seeds in back alley deals?
by asherbanipaula
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My Plumeria (in a large pot) was pulled over and leaves chewed off, left in a nice orderly pattern on the ground. Raccoon is the only animal large enough to do that.
Same thing happened to ours this week and I watched a squirrel going to town on it this morning. Hasn’t happened to this extent in years past.