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Identify a weed please
of sprouting bulbs, so hopefully some of what I planted will end up flowering in a few months... depending on how many the cats and foxes destroy.    Edit: For some reason, the link I try adding doesn't appear in the message. Here's one of the photos by Tomsk
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02/05/2013 23:07:27
by Busy-Lizzie
Talkback: Aphids
few aphids of any colour in my garden too, Pippa, but I do have lots of ladybirds so they could be the reason. My big worry is a fox which has dug beneath my Bramley apple tree and made a den underneath it. The tree has tons of fruit on it by delmonte
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28/11/2011 18:43:57
by steve001
Talkback: Rabbits and myxomatosis
at the bottom. It was not strong enough to avoid me, but it had enough self-preservation to chew its way out of the bag. Since then, I've left the rabbits to the foxes: we have a healthy fox population so I suspect the rabbits don't suffer for long. I by happymarion
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06/05/2012 21:12:09
by Shrinking Violet
Cats
a possible solution for us all its the

Coleus Canina (Scaredy Cat Plant)

this has a scent that is not liked by cats and foxes. it is suggested that you use these in pots as so if the cat moves to another part by dg43
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10/05/2012 22:29:30
by Jotting Pen
Gardening For Wildlife
to your garden.Avoid being to tidy and using gravel ,make a shelter for birds and foxs  at the bottom .You have a pond ,do not put fish in it,and with time and ever gaining experience you ll have a garden to sit and watch nature at its best. Thank you by Mark Feather
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13/11/2012 15:46:27
by Gracie5
Talkback: Death in mysterious circumstances
year" Oh, that's alright then - as long as your overfed cat's are ok! Should we persue this? Since moving here, we have taught our hunting dog to "leave" anything that comes into our garden - this includes ducks, foxes, rabbits, pheasants, doves, snakes by Janey
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28/11/2011 18:29:49
by joey woosey
Talkback: Grow something different
three yellow pelargomium plants, Adam. The leaves are lime green and no markings on although they are zonal pelargoniums but I shall be watching with interest to see if they can earn a place in my yellow Olympic Ring. I have grown celeriac, Susie Fox by Susie Fox
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02/05/2012 18:48:13
by Excitable Boy
Talkback: Plants by post
, or should be doing with it at this time. I'm very excited and eager to get going. Any advice would be great. Butternut squash likes a large space to roam in the sunshine. Can any one help with how to keep foxes off my Christmas potatoes? I have tried cloches by evergreen gardener
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28/11/2011 18:30:03
by M & S
Talkback: Mulching with compost
with foxes and said that you can buy lion poo on the internet from the zoo. This is a natural deterrant and might be worth a try.Lastly, my mum always used to say that my Grandma swore by using dried holly leaves as an anti-cat mulch, as of course they would by Sharon - Frinton On Sea
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28/11/2011 18:36:29
by Sarah - Reply to Margaret
Talkback: Toad tadpoles
-friend-in-weed-is-a-friend-indeed/ We have a beautiful pond that we have kept natural for the wildlife, we have foxes badgers and all manor of birds. We had literally thousands of what I thought was frog tadpoles but from your description they are more likely to be Toads. I will watch by oldchippy
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24/05/2012 22:26:32
by ess