Spray solutions are very easy to concoct.

Jul 21, Animals That Eat Rose Bush Roots. Rose bush root-eating culprits are the burrowers, gophers and voles. Not all burrowing garden pests eat rose roots. Moles are carnivores and don't eat the roots, yet their tunneling can damage the root systems of roses.

Whether they bury their food in the early evening or in the morning, squirrels have no place in your potted plants.

Squirrels will dig, but usually small holes. They might uproot a tiny new rose in a pot, but yours sound bigger. I don't think deer dig in dirt. If it was here, my best guess would growing peach tree from cutting raccoons - they love to dig things up - once we put fish emulsion on a new lawn, and by the next morning there were HUGE holes and rolled back turf all over the lawn!

Aug 24, Some major mammalian rose-eaters include deer, rabbits, and gophers. Some parts of the world can even have wild goats, feral pigs, or rabbits to contend with. In this article we are going to talk about the 3 main offenders in the western world: deer, Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.

May 30, by mountaingirl1 on August 03, AM. Just re-read your post the deer LOVE rose blooms and are able to snip them off with out bothering the rest of the plant. (Pansies, hybiscus and hosta are other favorites) I suggest deer-off (walmart or home depot), or making a concoction of rotted eggs and hot sauces.

Gophers feed on roots, among other plant items, and are a Rosarian's worst nightmare. A gopher can eat the roots of a rose bush quickly, causing extensive damage that may lead to the demise of the plant.

Identify gophers by the presence of mounds of dirt in the garden, which form while gophers dig tunnels. Rodents, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, and household pets can be digging up your potted plants at night. They might be attracted to the plants or the bugs crawling around in the potting soil.

You can add a physical barrier, repellent herbs, bonemeal, or cayenne pepper to keep them bushnotch.barg: rose bushes. Jun 17, If a gardener isn’t sure what pest is causing foliage, flowers or entire plants to go missing, time and effort can go into the wrong solution and the plant material keeps disappearing.

The two divisions of pests for this article are vertebrates, such as deer, rabbits, woodchucks and chipmunks, and some kind of insect. Jan 29, Animal Holes. Structural Hole Identification.

Animal damage above 3 feet high is often deer, but woodchucks can climb to eat leaves or fruit.

Mouse and Bats: Size of a pencil (3/8") Rat, Chipmunk, Flying Squirrel: Size of a quarter (1”) Tree Squirrel, Skunk: Size of a baseball (1½”-3”) Raccoon: Size of a grapefruit (4"+) Ground Hole Identification.

Rat: Holes tend to be inches wide and smooth from repeated bushnotch.barg: rose bushes.