thank you everyone, some good ideas here! Unfortunately we can’t fix where they are coming in as we have a very large boundary on a higgledy piggledy old farm and it would cost us an absolute fortune to redo all the fences and stone walls etc. The sheep also often just jump over even the sound bits of fence/wall. So the planting suggestions are great, euphorbias, ivy, conifers, allium, poppies and particularly the ideas for relatives of broom and gorse, very clever! And crocosmia does indeed seem to thrive here as I have tried to get rid of mine several times and it now lives in the compost heap so perhaps I should make friends with it again 😊 thanks everyone.
@MikeOxgreen I use my phone to shop online, access social media and take photos. I also get all my emails via my phone and it’s the way I use this site and it does all that perfectly well. Not sure what phone you have but they have come a long way from being just for making and receiving calls.
Hope you can sort your problem @pinklara I often dream of a life in the country but it seems it has its own issues I don’t have to worry about. Good luck!
I wonder if it might also be better to try and build some containers that they can't access @pinklara? @Buttercupdays might be able to help with that. There are cultivated crocosmias which will be good. You probably have the rampant one ,often called Montbretia, but there are lots of well behaved varieties. Lucifer is one. I don't think any sheep touched that when we were more rural, and there was a huge stand of it near the entrance. Gorse certainly doesn't get touched, but it might not be the bonniest thing for a container
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@MikeOxgreen I use my phone to shop online, access social media and take photos. I also get all my emails via my phone and it’s the way I use this site and it does all that perfectly well. Not sure what phone you have but they have come a long way from being just for making and receiving calls.
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There are cultivated crocosmias which will be good. You probably have the rampant one ,often called Montbretia, but there are lots of well behaved varieties. Lucifer is one. I don't think any sheep touched that when we were more rural, and there was a huge stand of it near the entrance. Gorse certainly doesn't get touched, but it might not be the bonniest thing for a container
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I don't use social media; except that you can't avoid it on some of these threads. I prefer to speak to people that I know and face-to-face. Wrotten mobile connection, but that's what you get if you live somewhere out of the way like Surrey. I keep my phone in the car and only use it for emergencies.
Emojis and emoticons add nothing, subtract rather. Except perhaps in a heiroglyph culture.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.