Have squirrels, birds, or other creatures ever vandalized your freshly planted native seeds or seedlings?  Seed Crowns® may hold the answer.  Originally invented for conservation forestry applications, the patented shelters have helped save a wide range of plants in settings as diverse as alpine meadows of the Pacific Northwest, prairie restorations in Minnesota, backyard gardens in central Florida, and many places in between.  Indeed, Seed Crowns® can help almost anywhere that either direct predation or incidental digging presents a serious obstacle to establishing desired plants.