Before we had a deer fence the deer sometimes munched on the corms of Triteleia, Dichelostemma, Brodiaea. I can't remember exactly which ones. I tried planting the native bulbs that I have seen growing where I live that I thought would survive on a bluff trail I help to maintain and monitor. There are a lot of various fauna we've seen on this trail (skunks, raccoons, gophers, bobcats, rabbits, deer, birds, etc.) The first ones I planted with a lot of small rocks in the soil around them as I read that would discourage the gophers. I never saw any of them. But I don't know what got them. I tried again another year. The only ones to return were Allium dichlamydeum and Allium unifolium. A friend found the Alliums the most gopher proof of native bulbs she planted in the ground. She had quite a stand of them for a number of years, but I haven't seen them in her garden lately. Strangely I have planted these two species in my garden and have poor luck although they are fine in pots and in raised beds in pots. >I wanted to ask about your experiences growing CA bulbs, particularly >Brodiaea, Triteleia, Dichelostemma, Calochortus, Allium and others. I'm >curious about predation from ground rodents, and to a lesser extent, deer >resistance or lack thereof! Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers