Thanks, Dave. Interesting looking thing....don't think I have ever seen one like it before. I have ordered it and will hope it works as well for me. We have had problems with what I thought were moles before (tunnels) but never the root damage that I am seeing now. I had always thought moles did not eat roots but were after grubs in the soil. This vicious creature has eaten roots off nearly every dwarf nandina I have plus all of my porcupine grass and my Julia Child rose. It seems to have happened over night but I expect it has been going on this winter and I haven't noticed until now. Last spring I noticed a few of the above ground hills but they were away from my perennial bed on this property and then seemed to disappear. Unfortunately, it has probably found a bonanza this winter.
Lyn, in my desperation to do "something" I read about the pots. I have just bought 4 new roses and have plans for another in a new bed. I have surrounded the new roses with wire cages and if I could get some of these pots locally like early next week I would re-dig the roses and plant them in pots as in my experience the wire cages are a mess over time and haven't worked all that well. I have planted in tubs for annuals under trees to avoid some of the tree root problems and that has worked.
Thanks all, for suggestions. War is declared!
