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geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508
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where did my buttercup go? It was there yesterday....

*shakes fist at slugs*

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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    I have little pots full up stumps. So stumpy I can't even work out what they used to be. image

  • geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508
    plant pauper says:

    I have little pots full up stumps. So stumpy I can't even work out what they used to be. image

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     Boo image Little monsters! Luckily I wasn't that attached to this one. Something is making a massive meal of my new and rather expensive edgeworthia, though, which I am NOT happy about.

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Could also be pigeons. I caught the wretches picking at all my emerging shoots.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508
    Ladybird4 says:

    Could also be pigeons. I caught the wretches picking at all my emerging shoots.

    See original post

     Hmm, could be actually - I saw some in the garden yesterday morning, in the offending area...

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    I made that suggestion as I couldn't make out any slime trails on your photo but I know that pigeons wreak havoc in my garden if I'm not quick enough to chase them off. At present I have a pair nesting in my neighbour's conifer and I'm sure they wait until I've gone into the house and then they descend! Grrrr!

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    My elderly neighbour was an ex army man and went bonkers at the birds eating their way through his berries and precious plants. We gave him a catapult and some peanuts as ammo. He was a rotten shot but the birds ate the peanuts instead! image

  • geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508
    Ladybird4 says:

    I made that suggestion as I couldn't make out any slime trails on your photo but I know that pigeons wreak havoc in my garden if I'm not quick enough to chase them off. At present I have a pair nesting in my neighbour's conifer and I'm sure they wait until I've gone into the house and then they descend! Grrrr!

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     Well, they haven't eaten the delphinium next to it, so maybe it was pigeon snack time instead. I can't see any trails either.

  • geum keenbutgreengeum keenbutgreen Posts: 508
    plant pauper says:

    My elderly neighbour was an ex army man and went bonkers at the birds eating their way through his berries and precious plants. We gave him a catapult and some peanuts as ammo. He was a rotten shot but the birds ate the peanuts instead! image

    See original post

     haha, that's so funny! 

  • AlxNicAlxNic Posts: 259

    I have been puzzling on how to convince pigeons to visit gardens other than mine. There are neighbours trees just behind out property. it started with one pigeon now there are so many. Do I guess that they breed and home back to the place they were hatched?

    So far my approach has been to run outside and clap my hands - and then when my back is turned they are back again. I don't want to harm them but I'd rather they didn't forage in my garden. I have considered a pop gun (but pop maybe not loud enough), a catapault or even my son's nerf gun. 

    I have just replaced my bird feeders with those cage ones (Wilko has a good price) but now the pigeons have  transferred focus to the plants 

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