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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,306 Championing

    Lol squirrel 🐿️ don't miss a trick. I had a sofa waiting to be picked up by the council, the squirrel was going in and out of it getting the filling for his nest. He did a treat with the left over Xmas nuts too.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 557 Empowering

    Looked to be quite a young squirrel, Going to have to get some nuts next time I order bird seed so he has something to enjoy ☺️

    Was funny to see though they are rather acrobatic 🤭

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,306 Championing

    Oh very I was sat in the garden on Saturday and one came on the fence, stopped looked at me, I was a bit scared he was going to run at me, so I made myself look bigger, I mean of course I am, but he ran off so it worked lol

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 557 Empowering

    I don’t think I’d dare try that lol we have Ring cameras in the garden and knowing my partner it would end up on YouTube lol 😂

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,306 Championing

    Lol crikey imagine being on up tube showing a squirrel who is bigger lol. Luckily no cameras in my garden

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist

    My grandad has a little group of 5-6 squirrels that he continues to feed into his 90s. He has named them all and can tell them all apart.

    When I lived in Glasgow the two closest parks the squirrels behaved differently. In Kelvingrove they were your usual skittish things, they might eventually come up to you if you stayed still long enough and had food.

    The Botanic Gardens squirrels though? Brazen things. I saw one climb into a babies buggy once looking for food. If you put a shopping bag down on the ground you'd soon have one running up to see if they could rummage through it.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 557 Empowering

    Well it started by getting the Ring Doorbell we didn’t think it would be much use but ended up loving it so we had some of the cameras installed, We have 2 cameras in back garden and 2 at the front garden, the area is lovely so not really needed but it does reduce the home insurance so that’s a big plus

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist

    We have a eufy doorbell camera, a second covering the front door and then a few internal cameras to watch the cat while we're away, that's the only time they ever get plugged in and turned on. The doorbell camera has certainly been helpful for deliveries when we aren't in. Though we've noticed certain delivery companies appear to avoid ringing the doorbell if it's a camera doorbell.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 872 Trailblazing

    Our favourite this year

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 557 Empowering

    Yodel and Evri do that here but thankfully the motion detection & parcel detection gets them lol

    We do have a DPD driver that always does a little dance for the doorbell lol 😂

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist

    Our DPD drivers are quite nice too! Yodel and Evri are probably the worst… Our local posties are very nice too.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member Posts: 5,207 Championing

    Wow @michael57 Incredible. Love your flower.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 872 Trailblazing

    thank you only another 24 buds to flower on it if the rain holds off not a great year for dahlias to be honest but hey ho

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 219 Empowering

    Tomato plants in hanging baskets reminded me of my experiment of growing tomatoes upside down in pots👍 You cut a hole in bottom of pot and insert young plant, hang it up and it grows hanging down. It frees up space but only works with certain varieties. Not the type I tried 😂 because it continually struggled to grow upwards and ended up like a grotesque tomato chandelier!! I've experimented with all sorts of veg growing with varies results over the years and I blame Pinterest!!

    Love the idea of a fairy garden! I'm planning on a more sensory garden next year, I love the wildlife type garden because you can get away with a lot of disorganised chaos out there 😂 But as my old dog gets less able to go for walks, I thought I'd plan to make it a little more interesting out there for him next summer. He ate the wildlife pond I used to have when we got him. It was a 3ft deep, 10ft wide, lined with pond lining and with a lovely gentle pebbles slope (all thanks to my son) After plunging in it to keep cool during the summer, doggo discovered the edge of the lining and proceeded to eat/pull/dig his way through it 😂😂 Now I've a couple of raised troughs filled with water and reeds that attract dragonflies.

    So I'm looking into more dog friendly plants, creating little pathways, little nooks and adding gently noises and smells. So it's back to Pinterest for ideas 👍

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,306 Championing

    That sounds great @onebigvoice

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member Posts: 5,207 Championing

    You have obviously put a lot of thought into this. @onedayatatime Good luck.

  • Luchia
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 557 Empowering

    Bought some lovely Photinia Little Red Robins! Only small at the moment but excited to see them grow

  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 859 Pioneering

    My new property I am moving into soon has a massive garden and in one section is a Polly Tunnel which is 40 foot long, with a mist spray system already installed for growing and watering all year round. Can't wait. I have the pond (now drained) so I can reinstate that as well also an area where the kids can play all secured.
    I already have my Acer which is 25 years+ old in a pot and has seen two moves and is definitely going with me on this one, back over the pond I usually have again.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 1,656 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    The polytunnel sounds very fancy @onebigvoice! What will you plant in there?

  • onedayatatime
    onedayatatime Online Community Member Posts: 219 Empowering

    That sounds amazing @onebigvoice !!! Have you grown in ploytunnels before? I recommend a book called The Polytunnel Book by Joyce Russell 👍 As a "have a go' gardener, I got a copy with future intentions of setting up something to grow all year. It sounds like such a lovely garden full of potential!