Living With Critters

 

This is a Lemon Ball Sedum.

Great plant for bright to sunny spots, drought-tolerant so works well in containers (which tend to dry out fast), and it's bright foliage adds a great pop of color.

This is my brand new Lemon Ball Sedum May 27 14:55:02 (The Wife has her own plants in and around the deck of her barn, I'm responcible for the small plot outside our back door.)

This is my brand new Lemon Ball Sedum May 28 05:02:59

That's a possum giving it a passing glance.

This is my brand new Lemon Ball Sedum May 28 05:05:30.

Yeah - you can't see it because that friggin racoon has ripped it up and left it on the ground roots in the air!

We've got a lot of critters around here. Most of them don't give a shit about our stuff. Sure, once in a while a possum will dig in a pot looking for grubs and insects, but not very often. And deer are known for eating certain plants, though we haven't had much issue with that, but the damn racoons will fuck with your shit just to screw with you!

Forcing us to use chicken-wire cages to protect some of our plantings.

This is me

building yet another chicken-wire cage

to protect my somewhat abused and repotted Lemon Ball Sedum.

This is my protected Lemon Ball Sedum May 28 11:51:57

This is my "protected" Lemon Ball Sedum May 28 22:13:59.

That little sucker just reached through the chicken-wire with both arms and uprooted my plant just because he could!

Head-drop - sigh