What's Eating My Asiatic Lillies?

The are the meal of choice for the rabbits in my garden. Of the dozens of plants to chose from in one bed, they always go after the Asiatic lilies.

Where I used to live, the cottontails would wait until the lilies were ready to bloom, then gnaw through the bottoms to topple them, and just eat the blooms.

Here, neither the rabbits nor the groundhogs touch my lilies. It's the New England asters that I have to protect. The rabbits will do the same trick of biting through the bottom of the stem to topple it, and then eat the tender growth on top of the tall varieties. (Ropel works for me.)

Same here. For that reason, We've given up on them. Daylillies are pretty much untouched.

Mike On the North Carolina coast - Zone 8a (Remove spam traps from email address to reply.)

Liquid fence worked great for me. Kinda expensive and smelly though.

I have two lilies now chewed down to the nubs on the second attack. We've pretty much given up on daylilies too, though, since something (or somethings) eat the buds each night before they open. We're overrun with deer, who flock through the back yard; rabbits; squirrels; birds; and a garden variety of bugs. Ain't gardening grand - and we still keep on trying!

Dora

Could be. We have only two rabbits and they seem to prefer the clover in the lawn. The deer, however, are overrunning the area. We have five or six of them galloping through the yard at the same time. :-(

Dora

I have daylilies planted in the woods and the deer don't bother them. It seems to be hit-and-miss what they will eat. I also have some hostas along their normal path. Occasionally they will eat a few leaves, but that is rare. I find deer prints through all my beds, but they just seem to ignore my plants. Other people have their gardens stripped. There seems to be no pattern.