A Nocturnal visitor!

I stopped buying bulbs for mice dig them up . I don't really do garden now for too many pests

Julia, I had a similar problem last year and never did find the culprit!

Oh Julia! What a nightmare for you. I’m guessing maybe squirrels? May be a fox?
I had a patient several years ago and he had the same issues, it was due to squirrels in his case.

I've given a like for the cheek of the culprit but that is something that would actually really get my dander up, we are lucky here as don't have those sort of problems...

Every morning without fail I have to clear the pavers in the rose garden, the earth gets scattered every day, now of course its mud, very often have to replant pansies and violas, sometimes bulbs, its the blackbirds I'm sure, now I love birds, they are part of our garden but why out of a garden this size do the little beggars have to pick that area M'land, its frustrating me so much that next year I'm already planning to dig the plants and bulbs out, put a liner in and lay granite around the rose bushes, I can still have colour if I want for springtime as I can stand pots on the pavers....

A badger can be a pain - they have such big feet. Hope it doesn't decide to dig a latrine in the lawn.

Sorry i ticked 'like', what devastation. Pity the badger didnt stay in the countryside.

So sorry to see this Julia. You must have been really annoyed! I suppose digging for grubs and worms, but if you used bought compost, there wouldn't be any in the pots. To see them knocked over like that you would think it was a badger though or a dog? Well whatever it was, let's hope they didn't find what they wanted, so won't be back..x

Yes, creatures are creatures, no malice intended with them. Freezing cold here today, no planting bulbs outside. Most of my tulips will be in pots, new ones this year..:o)

Sorry to hear of your visitors & their unwelcome activities. It’s so annoying, having to put it all straight again.I hope the netting will do the job. The squirrels dig like that in my garden too, but they don’t knock the pots over!

You'll probably be able to spot a footprint somewhere - they aren't like anybody else's. I got rid of one here by scattering a bit of chilli powder where it was messing up, but once I got a bit in my own eye and it was so painful I vowed I would never do it again to any creature.

I used chilli powder once to stop the squirrels. I had to put a polythene bag over my head as the stuff made me gasp. However I looked out of the window after & the squirrels were happily digging away completely oblivious to it,so it just didn’t work,waste of money. What are they affected by, I wonder.