Small white daffodil for rodent control?

Can anyone suggest a relatively short white daffodil that I can use as a barrier to rodents - especially voles? I use volblok with great success on permanent plantings but think it would be nice to have a plant that I could put in to surround the beds that I dig up every year. I put in glads, then dig them up and store them, and put in tulips. I figure that if I put daffodils on the perimeter, I won't have to put in new Volblok each year. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Donna

Found it! W.P. Milner. Rabbits stay away too.

don't you just love it when you talk to yourself? lol glad you answered your own question

I kind of enjoyed it. I knew my question was just hanging out there like a big old pinata and I couldn't help smashing it.

And what the heck - I talk to myself all the time!

Voss, you are such fun.

Donna

A gardener after my own heart. I talk to myself all the time too ^_^ Vole question: don't they launch they're attack missions from below ground? Wouldn't they just tunnel around the bulbs they don't like to get to the ones they do like moles? (She says having put up a Mole mailbox at her mom's to mark the permanent unrelentless residency of moles sigh).

I'm not sure but circumstances changed and the daffodils are now being used against rabbits. I found the solution to the voles some time ago. And it's because those little guys are really quite bright.

I've come to the conclusion that voles leave each other notes. About five years ago they came through during the winter and gobbled down about 50 of my lilies. They would come into the yard, mess up the grass, and make a beeline around my grassbeds to get to the bulbs. I decided it was war and put down expandable slate (Permatil) since they have teeny tiny delicate feet and don't like the feeling of this stuff scraping against them. The first winter they tore up the grass like mad and circles round and round the bulb beds but I didn't lose one. The next year the grass damage was about 75% less, and no bulbs were lost. And last winter there wasn't even grass damage. So I think they leave each other notes ("no, guys, stay out of that yard - all that work and no food").

Why don't the rabbits do that? They'll bite something, say "yuk" and leave it. Then the next rabbit does the same thing. And the next. Can't they leave a little sign (no, no, this is nasty")? So I'm putting Milner around the perlemutter platycodons I grow laboriously from seed each year only to have them bite off the tops, say yuk, and leave them.

Donna

hmmmmm Damien the Spawn of Satan hates daffodils but unfortunately my moms hate them too LOL. I had voles in Yellowknife NT and I planted stuff for them in the cliff so they stayed out of the garden proper but that's not doable unless you border on open wilds. Fortunately I have no voles and my bunnies are very polite here. They hang under the mugo pine but don't nibble things. Having a wild mountain cat helps I think too.

Can I borrow the mountain cat?

He's available as soon as he's finished his current mission to catch Mickey who has moved into the garden shed after someone whose initials are DH forgot to put the grass seed in a sealed container.