security systems.......

We've put up a few signs, 'please don't steal our plants' kind of idea, we'll see if it helps!

You wouldn't believe what I did the other day.... I had a clump of bamboo to plant in the shade garden. We dug a hole, inserted a plastic ring (a sawn-off barrel) --(which should help retain the bamboo's invasiveness)--and ran wire around the plant, ran it around the ring a few times and then around a hunk of concrete!! Then we burried it all and we put the bamboo in fairly deep as well, so we'll see how that works as a deterrent! ...Unbelievable that we went to such lengths, but then it can be pretty unbelievable what goes on in that alley as well...





but now the bamboo's
starting to grow! (don't mind the mess to the right there... trying to stop the wood wall from rotting.)