Hello Roland, quite simply because they are just mixed-up with everything else. Maybe I could make small wire mesh pockets for them? Mark > Message du 27/01/15 12:34 > De : "Bulborum Botanicum" > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [pbs] Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis? > > Mark > > Why not use 5 or 7 mm wire cages and dig them in > Easy to make yourself > They last at least 10 years > > Roland > > R de Boer > 2238 Route de la Maugardiere > F 27260 EPAIGNES > FRANCE > > Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 > Email: bulborum@gmail.com > Facebook groups:///https://www.facebook.com/groups/bulborum > > Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/pages/Bulborum/… > > 2015-01-27 10:04 GMT+01:00 Mark BROWN : > > > Travis, > > you would have to ask braver and more crocus wise folk than me. > > Here any crocus is smartly devoured by voles. > > I have given up on them except tommies which seed and some escape the > > gnawing. > > I will try and get some castor oil/ ricinus chaff that is good as a rodent > > repellent and slightly nitrogenous. > > It does help a lot! > > > > Mark W Brown > > 1924 route de la mer, > > 76119 Sainte Marguerite-sur-mer, > > France. > > > > > > > > > > > Message du 26/01/15 20:45 > > " Mark, > > > > > > Could it be Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis?" > > > > > > -Travis Owen > > > Rogue River, OR > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/