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Bought several pots of a beautiful plant labeled Lobelia cardinalis. Looks the same as the native species except it has gorgeous maroon foliage - I should say "had" gorgeous foliage. I was trying to identify it before I planted it and something is munching on it when I am not looking. I mean *really* munching. One pot has no foliage left and even the tops of the stalks have been munched down to the point where I don't know if they will survive. Can see the munch marks and if I didn't know better I would say it was an animal but the plants are too tall and spindly for that. Does anyone know what finds this plant utterly irresistible? Must be nocturnal. . .
Maybe snails--they are nocturnal and can do a pretty good job of stripping the leaves off of something. But if the stalks were decent size and have been munched too then I'd suspect a 4 legged critter.
