Can anybody post a good, clear pic of this fellow's leaves? I thought the one I had had died, but when I FINNALLY got started planting things out today there's SOMETHING growing in that pot! Whatever it is, it's a really vigorous grower with really big, very toothed leaves. (I'm SO excited---please tell me it IS one!)
Herrenhauser Garden leaves-need a good pic
I have posted pictures of HG leaves in an earlier post. It is not a very vigorous grower. The leaves are middlesized and have almost no toothing.
Judith, Hope you find Monika's pic as I can't get out to the GH to take a picture for you.Just got waken by a screaming Cockatoo and 5 barking dogs letting me know there was a rampaging bear in the back yard.Did manage to save my little cedar feeder on the deck but he destroyed the rest.Don't like it when they come in the daytime and this one didn't back down from me.
Snow,I've heard they can be real pests.Besides being a danger!My neighbor saw one across the steet( we thought he was drinking)but then we saw claw marks on the trees and tracks.....I've heard they break into barns to get the animal feed.Mine is definitly NOT bear proof!Don't let him get those brugs!
CC, they come every year and I always enjoyed seeing them till one killed our pet goat. Now I have a fear of them and don't want to get cornered in the GH by one.Most will run but this one is just too brave for me.If the sun comes out I will have to go out and open the GH for the Brugs but I will bring the gun.
I'm scared for you!Well, from the looks of your brugs you can climb one of them to get away from him!Hope the fragrance doesn't attract him!
Snow, that scares me. Do they continue to come for a while or is it just because they have come out of hybernation and are hungry? I don't think I could live with bears sneaking up on me. Can you kill them if they are doing damage? Maybe the rangers could come and catch him and move him far away. Be careful. I saw that if you are ever attacked, you should roll into a ball.
Snow . . . I cannot imagine what it would be like to have to worry about bears in my yard. I know that I would enjoy watching them but it would scare me when they showed no fear of me. I know that you will be very careful. Is this the only time of year that you have problems with them?
Snow, it sounds like time to put a new skin by the wood stove and some meat in the freezer.
Well, from Monika's description, it's NOT an HG. Oh well---whatever it is, it's going to make an impressive plant! Maybe even big enough the scare bears! (And I thought I had trouble with SNAKES.)
Bears are hungry now and very bothersome.I always enjoyed them till one killed our pet goat.The Game Warden told us to shoot it when it came back since it was coming into peoples yards with children playing outside and was not to be trusted since it killed our goat. We no longer have outside pets since the ones we had were killed by bear, bob cat and coons. Just want him to go away before I put the Brugs out. He's already trampled all my Pansies that DH planted around the birdfeeder.If he tramples my Brugs he will be laying on the floor in front of my woodstove.
Maybe a Brug fence against the Bears lol But don`t make it from B. sanguinea lol it has too much sweet nectar lol maybe ad some D. stramonium underneath for bad leaf smell lol If it don`t help I`m with Arlene ... new skin by the wood stove and meat in the freezer lol btw. how does bear taste? I have tasted much, but not this one lol
More seriously ... is there anything, that you can think of, that would repel bears like for example cats and dogs repellants?
Tonny, Bear meat tastes nasty.
Bear repellant = 357 magnum LOL
I've heard bear was guite tasty, especially the paws. But then, I like most all wild game meat I've eaten. But NEVER try to eat a possum.
ewwwwwwwww, Judith, who could want to???? that has to be the nastiest animal ever born!