Our groundhogs tend to like boltonia, rudbeckia and echinacea - I don't have any of the plants you mention. I think if you start seeing damage that you may want to spray your plants with invisible fence or a similar product. Otherwise, just enjoy. We still like ours, even when he's a busy nibbler!

I lived for years with a family of woodchucks, and never had problems. The deer ate everything, though.

didn't it get crowded in the burrow elly?
My folks have woodchucks out back and they haven't hassled any of their daylilies.

In addition to the genera mentioned above, woodchucks also love liatris and certain asters and sunflowers. Boltonia seems to be their number-one favorite, however.

We've got a woodchuck this year for the first time in a few years--it found an abandoned burrow. I'm hoping it's a male.

Thanks everyone for your input. I thought he/she was awfully cute and was hoping he wasn't going to be a nuisance. Turns out we haven't seen him since but that doesn't mean he isn't there ... there's lots of hiding places in the underbrush, snags for burrows etc. So far I like him better than the rabbits - who are very cute but also very hungry - and they LOVE hostas!

Dragonthought,

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You'll change your tune if he hanges around. As long as you don't try to grow veggies you should be OK, but they are hell on corn, peas, bean, melons, and quite a few flowers. After two years of pitched battle, I'm wondering why congress didn't authorize funding for the neutron bomb. Three years ago before they wised up, I trapped 13 in a havaheart trap in two months.

I share my property with groundhogs, and they nibble at things but rarely eat things to the ground. They also LOVE dandelions and eat the yellow flowers before they turn to seed. I love watching my groundhog move from dandelion to dandelion as if I put them out there just for him!

of course, my veggies are completely fenced, so they can not get in there.

Our Jack russell was trained just for ground hog hunting.She got one in the longhorn pasture last night.It was almost as big as her.When they start digging look out.At the edge of our property is a rock pile its a ground hog city in there so many holes.Im thinking of getting another russell.Theyre a comical animal to watch ha ha.

They sure are cute. See this groundhog lovers site

Here is a link that might be useful: Hog Haven

I haven't see "Dr Phil" since my neighbor's neighbor got a cat who I am constantly chasing out of my yard ! the cat not Dr Phil Sarah{{gwi:1345630}}