Those Vicious Pansy Eating Pigs!
What do Pansies and Javelina Pigs have to do with each other?
Nothing, I wish. Every fall I plant lovely pots of Pansies to adorn my front yard. They are the only flower that I know of that can withstand the freezing and thaw of winter. You can sometimes find the flowers sticking out of the snow just blooming like crazy all winter long.
That is until the javelina pigs come through my yard in the dark of night searching for some tasty morsel of food.
The first year I planted lots of purple, blue and some yellow flowers. Their grunts would awaken me as they moved among the flower pots outside my bedroom window on cold winter nights. I'd rub the sleep from my eyes and just cringe as I heard the clatter of clay pots as they nibbled their way through my garden.
The next morning I'd survey the damage. As I replanted several times that first year I began to realize they only eat the blue and purple pansies. Hummmmmmmm. They don't like yellow ones. How interesting. I tasted each color myself but could not tell any difference in taste.
But you know what? I have only yellow pansies this year. Think I might have outsmarted those little rascals? Oh, I hope so.
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They can be very agressive early in the morning. I drove down a street to pick a friend at 4AM and all the garbage cans were done on both sides of the street with them eating the garbage