The next 3 pictures are of a youngster that just begged a name, we called him Flower Eater. Hosta flowers, begonias, marigolds (a sq fav BTW). If it bloomed he ate it. Quite funny and a bit unusual since squirrels usually only nits at one type of plant and that can change year to year usually annuals.
While we are at Flower Eater is a good time to address squirrels, gardens and landscape. We have done one or the other for the last 25 years, landscaping in the last 3. Rabbits by far have proved to be the most destructive. Squirrels on the other hand love fresh soft tilled dirt. When you are making a new bed let it sit for a week, the squirrels get over it. If you plant immediately you will come back out to find your plants laying out on the ground.
Squirrels also have a tendency to fixate one type of plant, I don't really know why, but I have found that it is usually an annual. If we have a plant that we have had to re-plant more than 3 times, we get more of the same, that plant is the plant of the year. By doing this they leave other plants alone. Oh squirrels can see in color, one of the few mammals besides humans that have this ability, they like red and pink! They also favor young plants.
