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Pigeons

MabMab Posts: 1
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Any ideas on how to stop pigeons from stripping our Wisteria.  This is a very old beautiful plant (probably 40-50 years old), and until two years ago we did not have this problem.  We have tried hanging colourful rubber gloves, old cds but, apart from chasing them away, still they continue!

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  • AnneH2AnneH2 Posts: 1
    I'm having the same problem. This year for the first time pigeons have completely stripped the flowers from my wisteria; so instead of my usual spectacular display I have a bare summerhouse roof and big fat pigeons. Grrr! Help - how can I prevent this happening next year?
  • davidandjo1964Cw_PIPUSdavidandjo1964Cw_PIPUS Posts: 1
    Wood pigeons stripping buds and young racemes on Wisteria. How can they be possibly stopped?
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Simple answer - they can't be stopped. Chasing them off would need a dawn till dusk patrol. Netting would keep them off but wouldn't be aesthetically acceptable I suspect.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    OLd CDs was offered in a recent post on pigeon poo, as a means of keepng them away.

    I used to lose all the blossom on a crab apple tree to Bullfinches.  The tree was an ugly shape; the blossom that survived was sson over; the few crab apples were not worth the wait.  The tree was felled ... I have never seen the Bullfinches since.  
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,687
    We tried old CDs on the plums, gages and cherries. Didn't work. The pigeons still came and attacked the flowers and then the new leaves. Can only keep a look out and then scare them off but they are there at dawn and we are still asleep most days!
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,088
    I planted quite a few Alliums last autumn, some of them £5 for a bulb the size of a large onion. They had reached about 3/4 feet in height, and now are snapped off by the flying rats crashing into them.
    Ach well, the bulbs should be even bigger next year.
    Sunny Dundee
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