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Do you ever wonder what happened to your camelia flowers?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Little monkey!  Sweet though.
    just don’t let him get near your phone lines cables or loft space .
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No tree rats here @B3!!   I finally planted out my lovely red flowered Gloire de Nantes camellia in March and it is thriving.   Still flowering after 2 months, tho sporadically now, and lots of lovely fresh new foliage and growth showing.    Had to water it all thru April but not this month.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't encourage them at all. I don't even grow camelias!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Pretty standard for the squirrels round here. They seem to like the bases, the petals go everywhere.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    This year they seem so ravenous, they ate about 30 miniature tulips that were thankfully finishing off...but utterly infuriating as was intending to save them for next year. They didn't touch them last year...chicken wire will be deployed next year. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I noticed yesterday that a neighbour has a wonderful camelia covered in flowers and buds - in nearly June! We've had camelias flowering locally since January. I imagine the cool weather has helped - as with tulips - to prolong the season.





  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Out garden has been remarkable devoid of tree rats, since the kittens started going outside.
    Best deterrent there is 😊

    The little sods destroyed my damsons last year - really galling to se all the flesh spat out onto the ground, as all they want is to get to the stone.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I watched them tucking into next door's camelia flower buds earlier in the year. Obviously, they didn't eat the lot. Well  at least it keeps the tree rats away from my garden
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DitsyDitsy Posts: 196
    I've got two Jack Russell's yet still get loads of squirrels. They seem to play dare with the dogs! 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    The rain wrecked all of mine. Squirrels seem to like my walnut tree more even eat the bark. 
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