New Year's Day 2012: The Varmint Wars Begin...

Cindy looked out the back window this morning and discovered that some critter had spent the night digging industriously in the planter bed beside the garage and had kicked dirt all over the top of the wall.

When she went out to inspect, she discovered that the varmint had made off with a False Sea Onion (Ornithogalum caudatum) bulb from one of the pots.  The bulb had cast several bulblets and those were still there, but the center bulb was gone.

Too bad for the varmint that most parts of these plants are considered highly toxic.  Seems kind of a shame after all the work that critter did to drag that big bulb off.

I guess we'll know if it survived if it goes after any of the others.