What an unpleasant surprise.

Iris is just about the only thing that can be grown outside a fence where I live, because the deer don't eat them. So I just planted 21 nice fat new iris rhizomes (of a noid black), outside the deer fencing where they would be oh-so-pretty.

3 days later, every leaf is gone and some of the rhizomes have been eaten. Rhizomes weren't pulled up, so it wasn't the deer. The iris had to be nibbled off by bunnies.

This wasn't a taste and reject. 21 iris plants is a lot of leaves to eat, even if the fans had been trimmed.

So, I am hoping that I can pull the rhizomes back up and move them into the orchard, with the deer and bunny proof fence.

Darn rabbits. Why can't they make themselves useful and eat some weeds?