About a week ago, I bought some lovely rose bushes and planted them in my front yard. All were in bud and a couple were ready to flower.
Today I got home from work to discover that all the buds had been removed from all but one of the new rose bushes!
So I'm wondering if anyone knows if there's some animal out there that likes to eat roses, and what could be done about it. We do have a problem with deer, but I thought they went after bulbs more than flowers.
Alternatively, it is possible that some person deliberately damaged the bushes. We have made an enemy of one family on the block; they have teenagers, and the end of our driveway is the school bus stop for high school students. Interestingly enough, the one undamaged bush is the one closest to the house.
I am so MAD because I dropped a lot of money on those bushes, and I suspect it is deliberate vandalism by the nasty family down the block, and there is nothing I can do because I have no proof. I may have to transplant them to the back yard, and I'm not sure if they'd survive the trauma of being transplanted twice in quick succession.
I'm going to call the nursery in the morning - they're closed now - but I am so
right now that I had to vent...