Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: finally sticking around for groceries, 1 by rutholive

rutholive wrote:
KKB, Is the reason you don't want to use traps for the mice, etc. because you don't want to have to empty the trap. I don't use poison because i am worried that someway it might get to my little dog whos is a very persistant mouser. I much prefer traps, then i know she won't get poisoned. I have so far this summer trapped and disposed of 8 packrats. They came up the hill from the place below where a man had stored a bunch of junk then left. They are such a stinking animal, I can't stand them. And for some reason there are a lot of mice, I guess coming up out of the canyon, so I keep traps set all the time.

I do have quite a lot of host plants. Have 6 different buddleias, 3 kinds of asclepias. I do have some flowers in bloom outside in the garden from Feb. to Nov. Here is a photo I took of some native cleome. The bees just love them. DonnaS