Crown Imperial Fritilleries

Beautiful!!

these look nice but the scent reminds me of foxes smell.

Mine Frits didn't last long enough Lindak to get a whiff before they got destroyed. We had the real thing for a long time , when next door was left empty between tenants. They produced three sets of cubs under the garden shed and the cubs are out at bluebell time, playing at the bottom of the garden. Only 50 feet long by 40 feet. they certainly rearranged things a bit until they left. If you stood too near the shed after they went their fleas certainly packed a powerful itchy bite!

If that was me I would have got over the fence when the foxes werne't there and spread some flea powder down. LOL Seriously it must have been great to see the cubs grow up. they have a tough life. They have to find somewhere to breed. Us humans are taking over the world and the wildlife's environment so the wildlife use our gardens instead and you can't blame them, they have a place to on this lovely planet. I have hedgehogs in my garden with two little homes for them and I pick up the poo and put down water and some food although they are beginning to find their own supplies now as it's getting warmer. At least we don't use slug pellets if we can help it. I go round on slug patrol when it rains just to ease the population a bit.

Thanks Lindak.It is amazing how wild creatures find, even a highly cultivated, heavily used garden garden, is where they want to set up home. Unfortunately there has been so much infill/brownfield building around us last 5 years, that that foxes and hedgehogs are now limited in choice of urban habitat. We have some lovely camcorder of fox cubs playing on our lawn. By the way fleas have no reason to seek a new host while the cubs are still under the shed. They were ready to pounce on anything that moved near them = me, when the cubs departed. I took them in the house on my trousers......took a lot of spraying/dog flea powder and vacuuming to get rid of them. I put a dog flea powder barrier in front of the shed. We had hedgehog family breeding in the garden for some time but I have not seen one alive or dead round here for ages now. They used to be able to amble from one garden to another via undergrowth and a little soil dug out from under the concrete fence support. Perhaps what you are doing is the only way for them in future.

There are holes in the fences at the bottom round here. They usually need about 8 gardens.