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both The ground squirrel (a pox on the fiend's house) did a little bit of everything. A few of my jovibarbas were uprooted but not nibbled and two of them were eaten and half eaten. All of my older ones were almost eaten in half along with virtually all of the offsets, I hope this isn't the year they decide to flower as one of them no longer has any little ones. The worst besides my oldest ones was my Canada Kate which was almost completely devoured all that is left is the two smallest offsets and stumps of two of the larger rosettes. One of them had all the leaves torn off and left in a tidy little pile. Hopefully they grow back and thankfully the rest of my collection was too high for it to reach!

And yes as I counted how many I had purchased and realized I had bought so many I surprised myself haha. Fortunately I have plenty of room.

Hopefully my newer ones endure the heat the rest of the year as well as they have done this past week or so. When I started looking at other ones to buy earlier this year, I just read that they were heat tolerant and that coupled with my experience of my older ones all doing well in our summers, I kept ordering whatever caught my eye. And then I read further and found that not all of them are so tolerant of heat.