Merci, Roland. I've tried that but I have far too many containers to protect. I sought help from the Huntington Arboretum two years ago. Their solution is useful only for small seedlings, far too small in scale. The best solution I have found is building a barn owl house. A pair of those owls will consume up to a thousand rodents per year. I don't know about the accuracy of that number but they did reduce the rodent population in two months to low levels. Trouble: barn owls are not long lived and move from place to place. They have not yet movd back in. Andrew San Diego -From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bulborum Botanicum I know only a complicated solution this works here against voles I use 7 mm galvanized wire mesh and make little baskets for my very rare bulbs Roland 2011/11/26 AW <awilson@avonia.com>: > That's fine but what do you do when rats dig up the bulbs and spread > them among adjacent pots in the process? Labels may survive but the > identities have been mixed. > > Andrew > San Diego > > > From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org > [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] > On Behalf Of Jane McGary > > Roland has plant show attendees moving his labels, and Randy has > banned small children. In addition to these nuisances, I had a flock > of crows invade a raised bed once, and they plucked out and tossed the > labels all about. Took me years to get the collection sorted. > After that I adopted Roland's "buried backup label" system, using the > seed pot labels for that purpose. > > Jane McGary > Portland, Oregon, Usa > > > At 10:35 AM 11/26/2011, you wrote: >>I like it. >> >>I have banned small children from the collection. I once got a >>collection of named Pacific coast hybrid irises totally scrambled by a >>pair > of urchins. >> >>Randy > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com