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This is known as the jelly bean plant, or the pork and beans plant. It is one of the many Sedum varieties. It doesn’t make me hungry.
The fact that humans have named it after two foods should mean it’s perfectly reasonable for birds to think of it as food too. They do. When I have the first daily look at my garden I will sometimes notice an entire plant missing.
Uprooted! Gone.
I don’t think they actually eat them because I sometimes see them laying around my yard somewhere, just thrown aside after they realized my beautiful plant wasn’t very tasty or not what they were looking for.
That’s when I have to take them to the plant emergency room.
To avoid this plantnapping I have put a stuffed turtle with angry eyes in the vicinity of this plant and the grouping of others I have like it. So far this seems to be scaring off the birds.
I really want to see them grow up and have babies. My plants, not the birds, well not these particular birds.
