I came back from an all-day meeting and made a horrible discovery. Karma Camellia has been ripped to shreds by what must have been the squirrels. This is what he looked like at the weekend:
And this is what he looked like this morning:
Squirrels are not cute, cuddly, delightful little animals. They are disease-carrying vermin, and they have done more damage to my plants than the snails, vine weevils, fungi and moulds have ever done. When Paul Parker comes to London to kill the grey squirrels I shall stand by the side of the road waving palm fronds and cheering. They have no natural predators, so are as bad as cane toads. Pests.
I thought I'd sprayed well enough, but maybe it washed off with the rain, or maybe the squirrels have found that they quite like the taste of tabasco sauce. Either way, I think the time has come to put hazelnuts into the deeper crevices of the Agave.
Extreme? Maybe. But I paid a considerable amount of money for a Brainea insignis, which is vulnerable in the wild (according to Ferntastic) and rare in cultivation (according to the plant label). And I don't want an expensive, rare plant being destroyed by an aggressive, pestilent, introduced species.
And this is what he looked like this morning:
Squirrels are not cute, cuddly, delightful little animals. They are disease-carrying vermin, and they have done more damage to my plants than the snails, vine weevils, fungi and moulds have ever done. When Paul Parker comes to London to kill the grey squirrels I shall stand by the side of the road waving palm fronds and cheering. They have no natural predators, so are as bad as cane toads. Pests.
I thought I'd sprayed well enough, but maybe it washed off with the rain, or maybe the squirrels have found that they quite like the taste of tabasco sauce. Either way, I think the time has come to put hazelnuts into the deeper crevices of the Agave.
Extreme? Maybe. But I paid a considerable amount of money for a Brainea insignis, which is vulnerable in the wild (according to Ferntastic) and rare in cultivation (according to the plant label). And I don't want an expensive, rare plant being destroyed by an aggressive, pestilent, introduced species.
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