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tulips losing their heads

Auntiemand - there are cats around but into seen any pay any attention to the tulips. I see more in the back garden than front yet the tulips at the back are fine. 

Great idea about the pheasants from Dove! Only wish we had more round here. not sure the Glasgow pigeons would have the same flavour .

seems that the concenus to my problem is birds then. Should have guessed, I've always had problems with birds! 

tulips losing their heads

lazy gardener wrote (see)

Birds-some are attracted to yellow

Thats the winning explaination at the moment. Any more bids? 

tulips losing their heads

PatsyC - I considered that also but I dont think that the wind was that strong over the time that this happened. Also the fact that its only happened to 4 so far out of 30 odd seems a bit strange.

tulips losing their heads

I have a front garden border with tulips which were planted in the winter. They came up a few weeks ago and were a loverly display. Earlier this week two of them had there flowers 'snipped' off about 2 inches below the petals. Now there are 4 that have suffered the same fate. I dont know that if the fact that the one affected are all yellow in colour has any baring on it but none of the other coloured tulips have been touched. Also the heads are just lying by the plant and haven't been eaten or collected.

Does anyone know what could be the reason for this? I live in a Glagow city suburbs with very few wildlife issues to worry about. 

Planning for ground frosts

Cheers Welshonion thats the ticket!

Does anyone else..........

I also chop the largest or chunkiest into more 'bite size' chunks. Egg shells, i have discoverd, are definately better to be crumbled.

Planning for ground frosts

nutcutlet wrote (see)

Have a look out there. If the sky has cleared and the temperature is dropping the chances of frost are high. We might get a frost that's not mentioned on a weather forecast but rarely a frost that I didn't expect.

and the met office has all the info, you can look and see what the cloud cover is and what's happening to it

Thanks nut, thats the sort of response I was hoping for. 

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 sorry but I'm not sure why this is so hard. All local information may or may not be broadcast. Sometimes these things are mentioned, sometimes they are not. stations have access to various info but doesn't mean they use it. 

All I was asking was if anyone knew of any sites that had it. If not then ok I'll try elsewhere.

Planning for ground frosts

I have heard that as well but its not exactly reliable. 2 days ago we had a ground frost with no prior warning on the national or local weather reports. Perhaps they didn't know it was coming, perhaps its not always mentioned. I would prefer to check out these things myself instead of leaving it upto chance.

I would have thought with the internet as powerful as it is there would be some form of site with filters to set for such things.

Planning for ground frosts

Hi all 

With this changeable weather I often watch the TV weather forecasets to see what will happen to the temperatures over night. However, its actually quite rare for the bulletin to actually warn of ground frost. 

Does anyone know of any websites where you can focuss on the loacl area for frost warning?

Thanks

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