This was what the garden looked like in the middle of the recent drought. The bee-balm, creeping thyme, and native grasses held it all together.
But the down-side of a wildlife garden is that, well, it attracts wildlife!
Something is going to be eaten. This fellow is fat from eating my plants.
Milkweed? Seriously??
I had thought the damage to the milkweed tops was due to insects, or maybe a deer with an iron stomach.
The woodchuck bends the whole plant over to graze the top.
I watched him do the same to the bee-balm, but instead of eating the tops, he ate the leaves from the bottom of each stalk. And here I though they just shed their lower leaves naturally!
Nom nom nom nom.
I can't believe that any mammal can stomach milkweed. But he obviously prefers it, because these same plants keep getting eaten.
I call this a successful ecosystem garden.
Yup, I see you.
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