California Gardening: Any gopher solutions?, 0 by Zuzu

Zuzu wrote:
I think I'm really on to something here, Sherry. I just pulled up all of my invoices from Hortico, Pickering, and Palatine from the last three years. I bought about 250 roses from those three nurseries and every single rose is still alive (with the exception of three that died of causes other than gophers), even though scores of roses that were planted in the same beds are gone, gone, gone.

And they're huge in comparison with most of my other roses. The only other roses that are as large are in locations where they've somehow escaped the notice of gophers for decades.

Here's my Delany Sisters from Hortico, which I planted bare-root just two years ago, in April 2006. The two cats are posing sweetly near it to give you a sense of perspective. I actually was taking a picture of the cats, so this isn't even the whole Delany Sisters bush. There's more of it on top and to the left of the frame.