We have a garden gnome OH inherited when his dad died. I'm hoping it dies of frost bite. I have birds in my garden - 4 different guineau fowl made from clay sculpted in the UK and 2 in Belgium, 6 made from metal in Zimbabwe, one clay owl, one metal heron, one metal cock, one metal hen, one metal cat and a metal frog.
I really dislike gnomes and fairies and twee stuff but that's a matter of taste and they'd look very foolish in my garden. Don't think it's stuffy of the RHS to ban them from Chelsea but I expect the designers and exhibitors will have some fun with them this year. The RHS does a lot of really good work promoting gardening for children, schools and communities as well as research and advice on plants, diseases, design and so on. Most of its experts and committee members are professional gardeners and nurserymen and women earning a modest living, not landed gentry and toffs.
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I forgot i have 2 metal chickens (ne a pressie) and a wonderful metal butterfly that sits on a pole and moves in the wind. I am hoping it will keep the birds off the fruit but with my luck they will probably use it as a perch
I think they're the height of bad taste but each to their own, quite like meerkats and I have a stone cat and a childs large colourful windmill which is moved around the garden to scare away birds from pecking seedlings.
OH actually hates meerkats , we got ours for fun when we lied in caravan , his mother has since bought us a hedgehog (foot high) and meerkat (foot high) ...for indoors .... Eeek , the meerkat is in a 'room' mark the hedgehog has survived partially in liv rm for now hehe
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Which half of a meerkat have you got bunny?
In the sticks near Peterborough
We have a garden gnome OH inherited when his dad died. I'm hoping it dies of frost bite. I have birds in my garden - 4 different guineau fowl made from clay sculpted in the UK and 2 in Belgium, 6 made from metal in Zimbabwe, one clay owl, one metal heron, one metal cock, one metal hen, one metal cat and a metal frog.
I really dislike gnomes and fairies and twee stuff but that's a matter of taste and they'd look very foolish in my garden. Don't think it's stuffy of the RHS to ban them from Chelsea but I expect the designers and exhibitors will have some fun with them this year. The RHS does a lot of really good work promoting gardening for children, schools and communities as well as research and advice on plants, diseases, design and so on. Most of its experts and committee members are professional gardeners and nurserymen and women earning a modest living, not landed gentry and toffs.
I forgot i have 2 metal chickens (ne a pressie) and a wonderful metal butterfly that sits on a pole and moves in the wind. I am hoping it will keep the birds off the fruit but with my luck they will probably use it as a perch
I think they're the height of bad taste but each to their own, quite like meerkats and I have a stone cat and a childs large colourful windmill which is moved around the garden to scare away birds from pecking seedlings.
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