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That's really helpful and I can testify to the fact that they don't like the smell of white spirit mixed with wood stain is a deterent! The foxes have now given up - I think the most effective part of my scheme was the compost bag the I buried full of stones and bricks! They tried hard to pull out the bag but it was clearly too heavy and they could only tear off a small bit of plastic! So that seems to have stopped that! Last week i saw the cubs - 2 of them - in the garden, sunning themselves and
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I have a bay tree in a huge pot on the sunny patio. It is now about a metre high and still has new groth every year but may of the leaves turn half yellow - a few have brown tips and I think it might need feeding(?) What kind of food does a bay need? Could it be anything else that is upsetting it? Does it like being in a sunny position?
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I think we have discussed the difficulties of foxes going through the garden but I live in a major city in an urban area and next to a rather delelict garden. I have known that foxes like to live in this abandoned garden for a few years now and quite happily accepted the dip in the earth under the fence on both sides of the garden as their right of passage. It was even lovely to watch the cubs play on my lawn - yes even when they jumped over my spring flowers and bent them a bit - However they have
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I agree - it must be squirrels! We have several in the garden and I often see them burying the birds' peanuts and patting down the turf after they've finished. Trouble is they look effecient at hiding their hole but I can usually see it quite easily. If you have holes that are about 2 cm - 3 cm diameter and really deep then it MIGHT be the solatary bumble bee who I think digs a burrow often in lawns. I had a hole like this once and my friend was quite sure it was a bee. Now I have a huge hole - belonging
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They're all out now and have their support in place - thanks very much for your help Novice
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Thanks Jak. That's really helpful and I'll keep my eye on it over the summer.
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That's really helpful - Thanks! Do they need staking for support straight away?
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It was really crowded when I discovered it at the back of an established bed. I've been misinforming you all because after a little simple research I have discovered that the fence is actually North facing - even though it seems to get a bit of sun. I thought all north facing walls were dark and dingy places and it is true that the area under the fir tree is definately like this! BUt my camelia is nowhere near the fir. The buds are really soft and fall so easily off the plant. There is a hint of
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I've had a monkey puzzle in a container for the past 25 years! It was a real baby about 10 cm tall when we bought it from a forestry but is now about6 feet tall. It lives quite happily in a wooden barrel type pot about 15 inches diameter and I have only ever re-potted it three times. I have had to cut off the lower branches as it got older as they became brown, but it had maintained quite a good shape. It is still producing about 2 inches of growth to each branch every year. Whne I re-potted it about
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West fence as in on the west side of the garden - getting a little early morning light but in shade for most of the day - because of the fence! So you think it must be frost damage? Is there anything I can do to help protect it? I'd justlove to see it in full cloom! It just looks so promising with so many buds! Of course the other side of my garden is in full sun for most of the day, although rather dry because of a neighbours overgrown cherry tree - would it be happier over there? If it is any help
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