Look - no holes (yet)

Snap! I thought just that when I walked down my front path this evening. Long may it last :)

Long indeed, Gee.

Lol Dee put vaseline around the rim I ve been told its lovely and love the pattern

I've gone the copper ring route this year, 6d - sounds like a drive in the car, lol.

I ve done that the copper, it does work no slugs snails have gone over it in the pots of my lillies.

What a shame - they do so much damage. I've often had lily stems chewed right through in the past. Still not quite as bad as the 'red peril' though.

No I ve seen a few of the red beetle on the new plants I bought Frittillas also the Pasque flower so now they are dead squashed

After a plague last year I haven't found one yet this year! Touch wood!!!!

Thank goodness for that Wagger, I dread them comming perhaps the cold wind will deter them

Ooo I do hope so!

Well I have sword fly and since the cold wind they have disappeared so let hope hey.

What are they?

They look like a striped worm that eat s my gooseberry bush its what you get if you don't prune to air it I had them last year for the first time, so end of this year I shall prune.

Ah - sawflies! They deleafed my gooseberrys for me last year - and the redcurrants and blackcurrents - then the blackbirds ate them all before I could pick them. Perhaps I should net them.

Yes that would be a great idea I laughed last year the little blue tits had a nest in the church wall in the vent and they kept landing on the gooseberry bush, I thought they were eating the gooseberries no it was the sawflies.

That must have been lovely to watch.

I did get shots of them and uploaded don't think any one commented at the time so I wiped it

I must have missed that.

What a shame, it was last year.

Perhaps they'll do the same this year.

No they have nested in the vent but do come and get the nuts cheaky too lol but more timid than the robin and blackbirds

Blackbirds here are continually fighting! One set have built two nests and abandoned both so don't know where they are now. At least if I don't know maybe the cats and magpies don't either!

That happened to me last year they built one at the top of the garden in the clematis one egg in the morning was on the path not sure if the cats had it or the squirrel, then they made another by the back door which was successful until the winds came and blew the nest from the back of the Whisteria they all died so perhaps they felt threatened or a mock nest built to deter and fool the other birds or pretitors.

Makes you wonder how they ever raise successful broods!

Does nt it just Wagger though the same my self last year.